I.perf. subj. emissim, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 39), v. a. the same word with EMERE=accipere, Paul. ex Fest. pp. 4, 18, and 76, 1 Müll.; cf. adimo and demo; prop., to take; root yam; Sanscr. yamati, hold fast, Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 158 sq.; cf. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 598 note, to buy, purchase (very freq. in all periods and kinds of composition).
I. Lit.: “is postquam hunc emit, dedit eum, etc.,” Plaut. Capt. prol. 19: “qui puellam ab eo emerat,” id. Rud. prol. 59: “emit hosce de praeda,” id. Capt. prol. 34; 1, 2, 2; id. Epid. 1, 1, 62: “aliquid de aliquo,” id. Curc. 2, 3, 64; Cic. Att. 10, 5, 3; 13, 31, 4; id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6.—With gen. or abl. pretii (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 444): Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili. Ep. Quot minis? Th. Quadraginta minis, Plaut. Epid. 1, 1, 49 sq.; so, “quanti,” Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 41: “tanti, quanti, etc.,” Cic. Off. 3, 14, 59: “minoris aut pluris,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 7; id. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Att. 10, 5, 3 al.: “duodeviginti minis,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 74: “duobus milibus nummum,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: “magno, parvo,” id. Att. 13, 29 fin.: “immenso quaedam,” Suet. Calig. 39 al.: “bene,” i. e. cheap, Cic. Att. 1, 13 fin.; 12, 23, 3: “male,” i. e. dear, id. ib. 2, 4, 1; cf. “care,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 238: “quatuor tabernas in publicum,” for the public, Liv. 39, 44; 44, 16 fin.: “piper in libras,” by the pound, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 28: “fundum in diem,” on time, on credit, Nep. Att. 9, 5: “per assem et libram,” i. e. to adopt, Suet. Aug. 64 al.—Perf. part. pass. as subst.
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emptum , i, n., the purchase, contract of purchase: “quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt,” through buying and selling, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74; “so in jurid. lang.: ex empto,” Dig. 17, 1, 14; cf. “the title: De actionibus empti et venditi,” Dig. 19, 1; Cod. Just. 4, 49.— “Prov.: emere oportet, quem oboedire velis tibi,” Plaut. Pers. 2, 4, 2.—
II. Trop., to buy, buy up, to purchase, gain, acquire, procure, obtain: “aliquando desinat ea se putare posse emere, quae ipse semper habuit venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, etc.,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 62; cf.: “sententias (judicum),” id. Clu. 36 fin.; and: “animos centurionum,” Tac. H. 4, 57: “ex his (tribunis plebis) emitur ab inimicis meis is, quem, etc.,” Cic. Sest. 33, 72: “militem,” Tac. H. 1, 5 fin.; Suet. Galb. 15: “exercitum,” Flor. 3, 1, 9: “percussorem in aliquem,” Curt. 4, 1 et saep.: “aliquem beneficiis,” to gain over, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57; cf. Verg. G. 1, 31: “aliquem dote,” Ov. M. 8, 54: “spem pretio,” Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 11: “immortalitatem morte,” Quint. 9, 3, 71; cf.: “aeternum nomen sanguine,” Ov. Am. 2, 10, 32: “pulmenta laboribus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 48: “voluptatem dolore,” id. ib. 1, 2, 55 et saep.—With a clause as object, Sil. 7, 620: “furtis in manibus emptum est Oedipodae sedisse loco,” Stat. Th. 1, 163: “quantine emptum velit Hannibal, ut nos Vertentes terga aspiciat?” Sil. 10, 287; Just. 23, 2, 8.
