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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 9 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• wages:
    1. I. Of a labourer, soldier, etc.:
      1. 1. merces, ēdis., f.: workmen's w., fabrorum m., Cic. Verr. 1, 56, 147: to support poverty by the w. of manual labour, manuum mercede inopiam tolerare, Sall. C. 37: good, fair w., merces magna, digna, aequa, Cic.: low, poor w., m. parva, iniqua, Cic.: to pay w., mercedem tribuere, Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 4; dare, id. Phil. 2, 17, 43; persolvere, id. Dom. 9, 23: to receive w., m. accipere, id. Rosc. Am. 29, 80: high w. are offered to us by you, magna m. proposita est nobis a te, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, ad fin.: Laomedon deprived the gods of their promised w., Laomedon destituit deos mercede pacta, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 21: to raise, lower w., *mercedem augere, minuere: having lowered the players' wages, mercedibus scenicorum recisis, Suet. Tib. 34.
      2. 2. mănuprĕtium (price of handiwork, as distinguished from value of material): give me the gold, I will pay the workmen's w., cedo mi aurum, ego m. dabo, Pl. Men. 3, 3, 20. (This word is also written separately manûs pretium, Liv. 34, 7.)
      3. 3. stīpendium (commonly of soldiers' w.): v. pay.
    2. II. Fig.: any reward, recompense, etc.: merces, pretium, praemium: v. reward.
    3. III. Fig.: in a bad sense, punishment:
      1. 1. (rarely) merces: w. of folly, temeritatis m., Liv. 39, 55.
      2. 2. stīpendium: the w. of sin is death, s. peccati mors, Vulg. Rom. vi. 23.
      3. 3. poena, supplicium: v. punishment.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• WAGES
  • PROP., merces, -edis (of a laborer): nanus pretium: manupretium: pretium laboris or operae. To pay wages, mercedem alicui dare, tribuere, persolvere; pretium operae alicui solvere: to receive wages, mercedem accipere ab aliquo: good wages, merces magna (Cic.), digna (Col.): poor, low wages, merces iniqua (Cic.): fair wages, aequa laboris merces (Cic.): to fix the rate of wages mercedem alicujus rei constituere (Cic.): to offer high wages, magnam mercedem alicui proponere (Cic.): to ask for wages, mercedem alicujus rei poscere; laboris mercedem petere: to serve for wages, operas suas locare alicui (Plin., Ep., 10, 55, 1).
  • Figuratively, merces (Liv.); pretium (Terentianus): (in a bad sense) poena, supplicium (Cic.).