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merx , cis (
I.nom. sing. merces, Sall. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 27 P.), f. mereo, goods, wares, commodities, merchandise (class.): “invendibili merce oportet ultro emptorem adducere: Proba merx facile emptorem reperit,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 128: “fallaces et fucosae,Cic. Rab. Post. 14, 40: “peregrina et delicata,Plin. Ep. 4, 14, 1: “femineae,for women, Ov. M. 13, 165: “esculenta,eatables, victuals, Col. 11, 3: “navem mercibus implere,Juv. 14, 288: “sarmenta quoque in merce sunt,are an article of merchandise, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 118: “Arabiae et Indiae,id. 19, 1, 2, § 7: “mercis sordidae negotiator,Quint. 1, 12, 17: “in peculiari merce negotiari,Gai. Inst. 4, 72.—
II. Transf., in gen., a thing (ante-class.).
B. Of inanim. and abstr. subjects: “ut aetas mala mala'st merces tergo!Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6 Ritschl N. cr. (in old MSS. for merx also mers is written acc. to Ritschl; v. Rhein. Mus. 10, p. 454 sq.).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Cicero, For Rabirius Postumus, 14.40
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.165
    • Plautus, Casina, 3.6
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 4.2
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 1.2
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.4
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 5.2
    • Plautus, Persa, 2.2
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 4.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.7
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.14.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 12.17
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