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ĕmo, ēmi, emptum, 3 (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. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 598 note], to buy, purchase (very freq. in all periods and kinds of composition).

  1. 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, id. 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.
          1. (α) empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.
          2. (β) 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.
  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.

Empanda paganorum dea, Paul. ex Fest. p. 76, 11 Müll.

Empĕdŏcles, is

    (
  1. I. gen. -cli, Gell. 4, 11, 9; acc. -clem, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44; -clen, id. ib. 2, 5, 14 al.), m., = Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, a famous natural philosopher of Agrigentum, about 460 B. C., Lucr. 1, 716 sq.; Cic. N. D. 1, 12; id. de Or. 1, 50, 217; id. Tusc. 1, 9, 19; Quint. 1, 4, 4; 3, 1, 8; Plin. 29, 1, 4, § 5; Gell. 17, 21, 14; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20; id. A. P. 465.
    Hence,
  2. II. Empĕdoclēus, a, um, adj., Empedoclean: sanguis (acc. to his doctrine, the soul), Cic. Tusc. 1, 17 fin.
    Subst.:
    Empĕdoclēa, ōrum, n., Empedoclean doctrines, id. Q. Fr. 2, 11 fin.

empĕtros, i, m., = ἔμπετρος, a plant called in pure Lat. calcifraga, Plin. 27, 9, 51, § 75.

emphănistĭcum, i, n., = ἐμφανιστικόν, a duty paid by a priest for the ordination, Julian. Ep. Nov. c. 50, § 191.

emphăsis, is, f., = ἔμφασις, a figure of rhet., emphasis, rhetorical stress (cf.: pondus, significatio), Quint. 9, 2, 64; 8, 2, 11; 8, 3, 86 al.

emphragma, ătis, n., = ἔμφραγμα, a stoppage, obstruction, Veg. Vet. 2, 12 and 19 (1, 40; 47 Bip.).

emphyteusis, ĕos, f., = ἐμφύτευσις (lit., an implanting), in jurid. lang., a permanent tenure of land upon condition of cultivating it properly, and paying a stipulated rent, a sort of fee-farm or copyhold, Cod. Just. 4, 66, 1; Just. Inst. 3, 25, 3; cf. Rein’s Privatr. p. 168 sq.; Dict. of Antiquities, s. v. emphyteusis.

emphyteuta, ae, m., = ἐμφυτεύτης, the lessee in the tenure of emphyteusis, Cod. Just. 4, 66, 1 sq.; called also emphyteu-tĭcārĭus, ib. 11, 62, 1; the latter also adj., of or belonging to emphyteusis: praedium, contractus, ib. 4, 66, 2 sq.

emphyteutĭcus, a, um, adj., = ἐμφυτευτικός, of or pertaining to emphyteusis: jus, contractus, etc., Cod. Just. 4, 66, 1 sq.; cf. the preced. art.

empīrĭce, ēs (-ca, ae, Marc. de Med. 6), f., = ἐμπειρική, empiricism in medicine, i. e. a system founded wholly on practice, Plin. 29, 1, 4, § 5.
Hence, empīrĭcus, i, m., an empiric, a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience only, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 122 (in Cels. praef. and 5 init., written as Greek); their writings were called empīrĭca, ōrum, n., Plin. 20, 12, 48, § 120.

emplastrātĭo, ōnis, f. [emplastro], in horticult. lang., the insertion of a small piece of the bark in inoculating a tree, etc., scutcheon-grafting, budding, Col. 5, 11, 1; id. Arb. 26, 1; 11, 2, 59; Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 118 sq.; Pall. Jun. 5, 2.

emplastro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., in horticult. lang., to inoculate by inserting a bit of the bark with the eye, to scutcheongraft, to bud, Col. 5, 11, 10; 11, 2, 37; Pall. Mai. 6; id. Nov. 7, 7.

emplastrum, i, n. (or emplastra, ae, f., Gell. 16, 7 fin.), = ἔμπλαστρον.

  1. I. In medic. lang., a plaster.
    1. A. Prop., Cels. 5, 17; 19; Cato, R. R. 39, 2; Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 15; 34, 10, 22, § 103 et saep.
    2. * B. Trop.: quid est jusjurandum? Emplastrum aeris alieni, Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7 fin.
  2. II. In horticult. lang., the band of bark which surrounds the eye in ingrafting, the scutcheon, Col. 5, 11, 10; id. Arb. 26, 9 sq.; Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 121; Pall. Febr. 17, 1 al.

emplecton, i, n., = ἔμπλεκτον (lit., interwoven), rubble-work, a sort of masonry in which the space between two walls is filled with broken stones and mortar, Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 171 (Vitr. 2, 8, 7, as Greek).

empŏnēma, ătis, n., = ἐμπόνημα, the value added to land by culture: melioratio, vel ea quae emponemata dicuntur, Cod. 4, 66, 2; Julian. Epit. Nov. 7, 34.

empŏrētĭcus, a, um, adj., = ἐμπορητικός, of or pertaining to trade: charta, i. e. packing-paper, Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 76, 78; Isid. Orig. 6, 10, 5.

Empŏrĭa, ōrum, n., = Ἐμπόρια, a district on the shore of the Lesser Syrtis, Liv. 29, 25 sq.

Empŏrĭae, ārum, f., = Ἐμπορίαι, a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, near the Pyrenees, Mel. 2, 6, 5; Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 22; Liv. 21, 60; Sil. 3, 369.
Its inhabitants were called Empŏritāni, Liv. 34, 16, 4.

empŏrĭum, ii, n., = ἐμπόριον, a place of trade, a market-town, market, emporium, mart, Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 6; Cic. Att. 5, 2, 2; Liv. 21, 57; 35, 10 fin.; 41, 1; 27; Vitr. 2, 8; Plin. 6, 20, 23, § 72 al.

empŏrus, i, m., = ἔμπορος, a trader, merchant, Aus. Epist. 22, 28.
Emporos, title of a play of Philemon (the Mercator of Plautus), Plaut. Merc. 1, 1, 5.

emprosthŏtŏnĭa, ae, f., = ἐμπροσθοτονία, a disease in which the limbs are drawn forward and stiffen, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 6, 61.
The same called empro-sthŏtŏnos (= ἐμπροσθότονος) morbus, id. ib. 3, 6, 65.
Hence, emprosthŏtŏ-nĭcus, a, um, adj., = ἐμπροσθοτονικός, suffering from this disease, id. ib. § 69.

emptīcĭus (emt-) or -tĭus, a, um, adj. [emo], bought, purchased: glans, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 12: salsamenta, id. ib. 3, 17, 7.
Of slaves, Sen. Contr. 7, 21, 24: Spendon et Hermes empticii, Inscr. Orell. 2812: empticius an domi natus? Petr. 47, 12; Vulg. Exod. 12, 44 al.

emptĭo (emt-), ōnis, f. [emo], a buying, purchase (cf.: sectio, mercatura, etc.).

  1. I. Prop., Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 5; 2, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 6, 17; id. Att. 12, 3; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43; Tac. H. 3, 34 et saep.; cf., on its legal relations, Gai. Inst. 3, 139; the title: De emptione et venditione, Just. Inst. 3, 23; Dig. 18, 1; and Rein’s Privatr. p. 329 sq.: equina, i. e. of horses (with boum and asinorum), Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 6.
  2. II. Transf.
      1. 1. A purchase, i. e. an article purchased: ex illis emptionibus nullam desidero, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, 2; Plin. Ep. 2, 15, 1.
      2. 2. A purchase-deed, bill of sale, Dig. 32, 1, 102 al.

emptĭto (emt-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [emo], to be in the habit of purchasing, to purchase often (very rare; perh. not anteAug.), Col. 8, 10, 6; Plin. Ep. 6, 19, 15; Tac. A. 14, 41.

emptivom militem, mercenarium, Paul. ex Fest. p. 77, 5 Müll. [id.].

emptor (emt-), ōris, m. [emo], a buyer, purchaser (cf.: negotiator, mercator, caupo, institor), Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 128 sq.; id. Pers. 4, 4, 31; Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51; id. Phil. 2, 38; id. Caecin. 7, 19; Hor. S. 1, 2, 88; id. Ep. 2, 2, 167 et saep.; cf., on the laws affecting him, the authorities cited under emptio: pretiosus dedecorum, i. e. who buys them dearly (= magno pretio emens), Hor. C. 3, 6, 32: familiae, the imaginary purchaser of an inheritance per aes et libram, Suet. Ner. 4 Bremi; cf. Rein’s Privatr. p. 375.

emptrix (emtr-), īcis, f. [emptor], she who buys, Dig. 21, 2, 63; Cod. Just. 4, 54, 1.

* emptŭrĭens (emt-), entis, adj. [emo], desiring to buy, Varr. R. R. 2 prooem. § 6.

emptus (emt-), a, um, Part., from emo.

empȳĭcus, i, m., = ἐμπῦϊκός, suffering from abscesses or expectoration of blood, Marc. Emp. 7; Theod. Prisc. 2, 10.

Empylus, i, m., = Ἔμπυλος, a rhetorician of Rhodes, Cic. ap. Quint. 10, 6, 4.

empyrĭus (-rĕus), a, um, adj., = ἐμπύριος, fiery: mundi sublimitates, August. Civ. D. 10, 27.