market (subs.) Copy link Outline I. The place1. măcellum (for provisions)2. fŏrum (place of public meeting for sundry purposes)3. perh. mercātus, ūsII. The regularly instituted season1. mercātus, ūs2. nundĭnae, arum (held every nine [eight] days)III. Sale • market (subs.): I. The place: 1. măcellum (for provisions): the forum olitorium was an old m., where there was a plentiful supply of vegetables, forum ol. erat antiquum m., ubi olerum copia, Varr. L. L. 5, 32, 146: the fish-m., m. cetariorum, id. R. R. 3, 17, ad fin.: Pl.: Cic. (N.B.--The passage from Varr. shows macellum to have been the current term: cf. ib. § 147.) 2. fŏrum (place of public meeting for sundry purposes): fish-m., cattle-m., f. piscarium, boarium, etc.: Pl.: Liv. (but in various cases, the name was all that remained of the ancient market: cf. art. Roma, Dict. Geog. ii. 813). In wider sense, applied to a town: the most frequented market ("mart") in the whole kingdom, forum rerum venalium totius regni maxime celebratum, Sall. Jug. 47: v. market-town. 3. perh. mercātus, ūs: cf. infr. II. The regularly instituted season: 1. mercātus, ūs: to hold a m., m. habere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 9: a crowded m., Liv. 1, 30, med. (also used of other public gatherings: cf. Cic. l. c.). 2. nundĭnae, arum (held every nine [eight] days): it was not legal for the elections to be held on m.-days, comitia nundinis haberi non licebat, Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 13: Cic.: Fest. Phr.: pertaining to the (weekly) m., nundinarius, Plin.: Ulp.: to attend or hold a m., nundinari: usu. in fig. sense, e. g. to make m. of the empire of the Roman people, imperium P. R. nundinari, Cic. Ph. 3, 4, 10. III. Sale: q. v.
market (v.) Copy link Outline 1. nundĭnor, 12. obsōno, 1 (to buy provisions) • market (v.): 1. nundĭnor, 1: v. preced. art. (II., fin.). 2. obsōno, 1 (to buy provisions): Pl. Aul. 2, 4, 1: Ter.
MARKET Copy link • MARKETTime, place, or assembly for selling and buying, mercatus (assembly of buyers and sellers in public places): mindinae (a weekly market, market-day): forum, also with rerum venalium (a place where things are sold; ☞ MARKET-TOWN). To hold a market, mercatum habere: to appoint a market, mercatum nundinas instituere: to go to market, ad mercatum proficisci: to go, come to any place to market, aliquo ad mercatum ire, venire: to attend the markets, go about to the markets, nundinas obire; circa fora proficisci ibique merces venditare (of a dealer; after Liv., 39, 18): to take anything to market, aliquid ad mercatum deferre (PROP.); aliquid proferre, in medium proferre or promere: market-people, qui nundinas obeunt or obierunt; qui ad mercatum veniunt or venerunt: clerk of the market, agoranomus (ἀγορανόμος, with the Greeks, answers best to the English notion, Plaut., Capt., 4, 2, 44, etc.); aedilis plebis (the magistrate who, at Rome, had the superintendence of the affairs of the market; it therefore very indistinctly expresses ournotion): praefectus annonae (in respect of the sale of corn). Sale, vent, venditio mercium. A good or quick market, *faclis et expedita venditio mercium: to find a good market, *facile vendi: to find no market, *repudiari: that has a good market, vendibilis (opposed to invendibilis).