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ē-mendo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [mendum],
- I. to free from faults, to correct, improve, amend (cf. corrigo—class.; not in Caes.): tota civitas emendari et corrigi solet continentia principum, Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 30; cf. Quint. 2, 2, 7; 2, 4, 14; 9, 3, 89: leviter tuum consilium (with conformare), Cic. Mur. 29: consuetudinem vitiosam, id. Brut. 75: vitia adolescentiae multis virtutibus, Nep. Them. 1: facta priora novis, Ov. F. 4, 596: res Italas legibus, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 3: legem severius, Suet. Aug. 34: sucos acerbos in pomis, Ov. Med. Fac. 5; cf. terram terrā, Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 41: bovem cubitorem fame et siti, Col. 6, 2, 11: angorem animi (sui), Amm. 14, 10, 2.
Esp. freq. of correcting, emending language (oral or written), Cic. Att. 2, 16 fin.; id. Or. 46; Quint. 2, 2, 7; 8, 2, 4 et saep.
In medic. lang., like corrigere, for to cure: alopecias, Plin. 20, 13, 50, § 129: tussim, id. 20, 16, 62, § 170: albugines oculorum, id. 32, 7, 24, § 70: cicatrices, id. 36, 21, 42, § 156 et saep.
- II. In post-class. lang. in partic., to correct by punishment, to chastise: libertum non obsequentem aut verbis aut fustium castigatione, Dig. 1, 16, 9, § 3; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 51; Lact. Mort. Pers. 22 al.
Hence, ēmendātus, a, um, P. a., faultless, perfect, pure: mores, Cic. Lael. 17, 61; cf. vir, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 30; Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 5: e. et Latina locutio, Cic. Brut. 74; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 1; 33; 2, 4, 15 al.: opus, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92: aquae, id. 36, 15, 24, § 121.
Comp.: mulier, Petr. 126, 13: vita, Dig. 4, 3, 11.
Sup.: homo (with optimus), Plin. Ep. 8, 22, 2: libri, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 3; cf.: correcta et emendata maxime, Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 13.
Adv.: ēmendāte, faultlessly, perfectly, purely: loqui, scribere, etc., Cic. Opt. Gen. 2; Quint. 8, 1, 2; 8, 3, 1; Hirt. B. G. 8 prooem. § 6; Vitr. 10, 11.
Comp.: facere capillum, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 58; Quint. 1, 6, 19 Zumpt.
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).
- 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.
- (α) empta, ae, f., she who is bought, the slave, Prop. 1, 9, 4.
- (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.
- 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.