retail (v.) Copy link Outline 1. distrăho, xi, ctum, 3 (to sell in parcels)2. dīvendo, no pf., dĭtum, 3 • retail (v.) ; retail, sell by 1. distrăho, xi, ctum, 3 (to sell in parcels): to sell the cargoes by r., merces d., Just. 9, 1: Tac.: Suet. 2. dīvendo, no pf., dĭtum, 3: to sell the booty by r., d. reliquias praedae, Liv. 21, 21: Cic.: Tac.: or simply vendo, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 65. Phr.: to r. all kinds of common wares, promiscua et vilia mercari, Tac. G. 5 (R. and A.).
retail (subs.) Copy link • retail (subs.): a selling by r., distractio, Ulp. Dig. 14, 3, 5, § 12: a r. traffic, mercatura tenuis (business on a small scale), Cic. Off. 1, 42, 151: a r. dealer, caupo, Cic.: Pl.: v. huckster: also prŏpōla (προπώλης), Cic. Pis. 27, 67: a r. shop, caupōna, id. ib. 22, 53.
RETAIL Copy link • RETAIL 1. s. mercatura tenuis (general term for a business in a small way). A retail shop (for cloth), *taberna, in qua panni ad ulnam venduntur (Cic., Off., 1, 42, 151). 2. v. divendere: distrahere: ad ulnam vendere (of stuffs, etc.): mercaturam tenuem facere (after Cic.): promiscua et vilia mercari (Tac., Germ., 5).