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manceps, ĭpis, m. [manus-capio], a purchaser of any thing at a public auction, a renter, farmer, contractor, etc. (syn.: redemtor, exactor).
- I. Lit.: manceps dicitur, qui quid a populo emit conducitve, quia manu sublata significat se auctorem emptionis esse: qui idem praes dicitur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 151 Müll.: postremo ne in praedae quidem societate mancipem aut praedem … reperire potuisti, Cic. Dom. 18, 48: si res abiret ab eo mancipe, quem ipse apposuisset, contractor for building, id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 141: hominis studiosissimi nobilitatis manceps fit Chrysogonus, the purchaser, id. Rosc. Am. 8, 21: mancipes a civitatibus pro frumento pecuniam exegerunt, the contractors with the government, farmers, id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 33; id. Dom. 10, 25: nullius rei neque praes neque manceps, Nep. Att. 6, 3: aliquis praevalens annonam flagellet, i. e. a forestaller, speculator, Plin. 33, 13, 57, § 164: sutrinae, a keeper of a stall, id. 10, 43, 60, § 122; Plin. Ep. 3, 19: operarum, one who hires laborers to let them out again, Suet. Vesp. 1; itinera fraude mancipum et incuria magistratuum interrupta, a farmer of the revenue, farmer-general, Tac. A. 3, 31: VIAE APPIAE, Inscr. Orell. 3221.
- II. Transf.
- A. A surety, bondsman, bail, = praes: ego mancipem te nihil moror, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 29.
- * B. One who hires people to applaud: conducti et redempti mancipes, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 4.
- * C. The owner, proprietor, or possessor of a thing: deus et manceps divinitatis, Tert. Apol. 11.
- D. A master, chief: carceris, i. e. jailer, Prud. στεφ. 5, 345; Tert. de Spect. 10.
mancĭpo (mancŭpo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [manceps].
- I. To make over or deliver up as property by means of the formal act of purchase (mancipium; v. mancipium init.), to dispose of, transfer, alienate, sell (not in Cic.; for the true reading ap. Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 24, is emancipaverat; id. Sen. 11, 38, emancipatus; and id. Phil. 2, 21, 51, emancipatum).
- A. Lit.: alienos mancupatis, Alienos manumittitis, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 10: servos singulos actori publico, Tac. A. 2, 30; Gai. Inst. 2, 33: defundo mancipando, id. ib. 4, 131: quaedam, si credis consultis, mancipat usus, gives one a title to, makes one’s property, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 159.
- B. Trop., to give up to, deliver up, subject: luxu et saginae mancipatus emptusque, Tac. H. 2, 71: corpus mero et stupro, App. M. 9, p. 223, 29: de ignaviae latebris retractus curiarum functionibus mancipetur, Cod. Th. 12, 1, 83.
- * II. I. q. manu capere, to seize, catch: ita capitur (alces): alioqui difficile est eam mancipari, Sol. 20.