credit (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Belief, faith1. fĭdēs, ĕi2. auctōrĭtas (stronger than fidesII. Esteem, reputationIII. In a commercial sense • credit (subs.): I. Belief, faith: 1. fĭdēs, ĕi: when less c. was now given to legends, quum jam minor fabulis haberetur f., Cic.: to give c. to evidence, testimonio f. tribuere, Cic.: who also has, f. adjungere in same sense: I have c. with this man, mihi f. apud hunc est (with acc. and inf.), Ter.: it lessens both the authority of the orator and the c. of his speech, imminuit et oratoris auctoritatem et orationis f., Cic. 2. auctōrĭtas (stronger than fides: esp. as attaching to a person's influence or character: v. supr. last ex.): to think that that evidence deserves c., for which no voucher has been found, putare auc. esse in testimonio cujus auctor inventus sit nemo, Cic.: but what c. can be given to that phrenzy which you call divine? quid vero auctoritatis habet furor iste quem divinum vocatis? Cic.: v. authority. II. Esteem, reputation: fāma, existĭmātio, grātia (influence, popularity: q. v.): v. repute, reputation. Phr.: nor do I consider this to your c., neque ego hoc in tua laude pono, Cic.: to say anything to a person's c., in laudem alicujus dicere, Gell.: to give any one greater c. for eloquence, etc., eloquentiae alicui majorem tribuere laudem, etc., Cic.: to mention anybody's name to his c., quem honoris causa nomino (parenthetically), Cic. (but the expression is more respectful than the English): but it was not to your c. so to act, at tu indignus qui faceres (ea), Ter. III. In a commercial sense: fĭdes: to do away with c. (by means of the Licinian rogation), f. abrogare, Liv.: c. fails, f. concidit; aliquem deficit, Cic.: c. was more limited throughout Italy, f. tota Italia erat angustior, Caes.: c. had been banished from the forum, f. de foro sublata fuerat, Cic. to have c., fide stare, Liv.: money borrowed on his own or his friends' c., pecunia sua aut amicorum f. sumpta mutua, Sall. Phr.: to place a balance to a person's c., reliqua rescribere, Cic. Att. 16, 2: whatever your father owes me I will order to be put down to your c., quidquid mihi pater tuus debuit, acceptum tibi fieri jubebo, Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 2: to buy on c., *pecunia haud praesenti emere: cf. Pl. Men. 5, 9, 97: or perh. better, fide sua emere, cf. supr. (in diem emere is to buy with an agreement to pay at a certain date: Nep. Att. 9, 5: comicé, to buy on c. and sell for cash, coecâ die emere oculatâ vendere, Plaut.).