purchase (v.) Copy link Outline 1. ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 32. compăro, 1 (to procure)3. penso, 1 (to pay down money; rarely with acc. of thing secured)4. mercor, 1, dep. (acc. of thing; abl. [with ab or de] of pers.; abl. or gen. of price) • purchase (v.): (wider in sense than buy) to obtain or redeem at any sort of cost (abl.). 1. ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3: food p.d by your toil, pulmenta laboribus empta, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48: pleasure p.d at the cost of pain is hurtful, nocet empta dolore voluptas, id. ib. 1, 2, 55: he has p.d immortality by death, emit morte immortalitatem, Quint. 9, 3, 71. Comps. (1) cŏĕmo, 3: (to collect by purchasing): cf. Hor. Od. 1, 29, 13, coëmptos undique nobiles libros. (2) rĕdĭmo, 3 (to buy back; but more freq. fig.): to p. peace, pacem redimere ab aliquo, Just. 43, 5, fin.: to p. favour and friendship by (Caesar's) death, gratiam atque amicitiam ejus morte r., Caes. B. G. 1, 44: he p.d the good will of the soldiers by gratuities, largitione militum voluntates redemit, id. B. C. 1, 39: to p. at a price, and esp. with a bribe, pretio redimere: parents were compelled to p. for their children with a bribe not life but a speedy death, non vitam liberum, sed mortis celeritatem pretio redimere cogebantur parentes, Cic. Verr. 5, 45, 119: redimat pretio sepeliendi potestatem, id. ib.: in the sense of to p. immunity for, obtain pardon of, an offence: flagitium aut facinus red.. Sall. C. 14: (with per of the price), Ut sua per nostram redimat perjuria poenam, Ov. Am. 3, 3, 21. 2. compăro, 1 (to procure): v. to provide, procure. 3. penso, 1 (to pay down money; rarely with acc. of thing secured): to p. victory with a loss of men, victoriam damno p. militis, Vell. 2, 115: of a ransom, vitam p. auro, Sil. 2, 35. 4. mercor, 1, dep. (acc. of thing; abl. [with ab or de] of pers.; abl. or gen. of price): to p. goods from merchants and sell them again directly, m. a mercatoribus quod statim [vendas], Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: with de, fundum mercatus est de pupillo, id. Fl. 20, 46: to p. at so dear a rate, tanto pretio m., id. R. Am. 46, 133: I think that these services ought to be purchased at the cost of life, ego haec officia mercanda vita puto, Cic. Att. 9, 5. Comp. ēmercor (= buy off, p. out, p. immunity for): cf. adulterium ingentibus donis e., Tac. A. 13, 44; aditum principis e., ib. 16, 1.
purchase (subs.) Copy link Outline I. The act of purchasing, emptioII. The thing bought1. expr. by verb, quod emptum, partum, comparatum est, etc.2. merx, mercĭmōniumIII. Money paid for landed properly, etc. • purchase (subs.). I. The act of purchasing, emptio: this p. being completed, hac e. facta, Cic. Caec. 6, 17: the p. of horses, e. ĕquīna, Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 6. II. The thing bought: 1. expr. by verb, quod emptum, partum, comparatum est, etc.: v. to purchase. 2. merx, mercĭmōnium: v. merchandise. III. Money paid for landed properly, etc.: to buy an estate at 20 years' p., *praedium ex viginti annorum mercedis aestimatione emere.
PURCHASE Copy link • PURCHASE 1. v. emere, redimere (PROP. and figuratively; also = to bribe): mercari, emercari (to obtain by purchase; often in a contemptuous sense; PROP. and figuratively): corrumpere (figuratively, to bribe). To purchase one thing with another, compensare aliquid cum re (Vid: Cic., Fin., 5, 18, 48; but poetically, emere aliquid aliqua re, Hor., Ep., 1, 2, 55): to purchase peace, pacem redimere (aliqua re; e.g., obsidibus, auro): pacem mercari aliqua re (e.g., ingenti pecunia; and this word expresses more forcibly the disgraceful nature of the act): to purchase peace from anyone, pacta mercede ab aliquo pacem redimere: to purchase victory with great loss of troops, victoriam damno amissi militis pensare. 2. s. Act of purchasing, emtio. Thing purchased, mercimonium.