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vectūra , ae, f. veho,
I.a bearing, carrying, conveying, transportation by carriage or by ship; a riding, etc.
I. Lit. (class.): “equi idonei ad vecturam,” Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 15: “misimus qui pro vecturā solveret,” for the transportation, Cic. Att. 1, 3, 2: mercium. Dig. 4, 9, 4: sine vecturae periculo. of transportation by sea, Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 4.— Plur.: “remiges, arma, frumenta, vecturae imperabantur,” transport, conveyance, Caes. B. C. 3, 32: “vecturas frumenti finitimis civitatibus descripsit,” id. ib. 3, 42: “onerum,” Gell. 5, 3, 1.—
II. Transf., passage-money, freight-money, fare, freight, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 138; Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 4; Petr. 101, 5.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 2.17.4
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.3.2
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.32
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 3.2
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 6.15.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 5.3.1
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