verb transitive #1153

vendo

2nd PP vendere · 3rd PP vendĭdi · 4th PP vendĭtum · conj. 3rd

contr. from venum-do, venundo; v. 2. venus

to sell; vend

to sell, vend.

a sale •••

Lit.: aut hoc emptore vendes pulchre aut alio non potes, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 31: juravistin' te illam nulli venditurum? id. Ps. 1, 3, 118: argentum accepi, dote inperium vendidi, id. As. 1, 1, 74: dum quidem hercle ne minoris vendas quam ego emi, pater, id. Merc. 2, 3, 89: vendo meum non pluris quam ceteri, fortasse etiam minoris, Cic. Off. 3, 12, 51: quam optime vendere, id. ib.: male, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227: dicit, quanti cujusque agri decumas vendiderit, id. ib. 2, 3, 53, § 123 sq.: praedia, id. ib. 2, 1, 54, § 142: fanum pecuniā grandi, id. Sest. 26, 56.—Subst.: vendĭtum, i, n., a sale: tot judicia, quae ex empto aut vendito aut conducto aut locato contra fidem fiunt, sale, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74: constat negotiatio ex empto et vendito, Sen. Ben. 6, 38, 2.—

to sell; give up; to betray figuratively ••

Trop., to sell or give up any thing for money, to betray: cum te trecentis talentis regi Cotto vendidisses ... quorum omnium capita regi Cotto vendidisti, Cic. Pis. 34, 84: ut modo se his, modo vendat illis, id. Har. Resp. 22, 47: vendidit hic auro patriam, sold, betrayed, Verg. A. 6, 621: suffragia nulli, Juv. 10, 78: sua funera, i. e. to expose one's life for hire, id. 8, 192: animam lucro, Pers. 6, 75: verba sollicitis reis, Mart. 5, 16, 6: hoc ridere meum tam nil, nullā tibi vendo Iliade, I will not sell it thee for an Iliad, Pers. 1, 122.—

to cry up; trumpet; blazon by extension ••

Transf., to cry up, trumpet, blazon, praise a thing (as if offering it for sale): Ligarianam praeclare vendidisti, Cic. Att. 13, 12, 2: vendit poëma, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 75: at tu qui Venerem docuisti vendere primus, Tib. 1, 4, 59: te peregrinis vendere muneribus, Prop. 1, 2, 4: purpura vendit Causidicum, vendunt amethystina, recommend, Juv. 7, 135.!*? The classical passive of vendo is veneo (q. v.), acc. to Diom. p. 365 P. In prose of the golden period, no passive forms of vendo are found, except the partt. venditus and vendendus; but from the time of Seneca the pres. and imperf. pass. are freq.; e. g. Sen. Contr. 1, 2, § 7; Just. 11, 4, 8; 34, 2, 6; Spart. Had. 18, § 8; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 45; Diom. p. 365 P.

Perseus ID: n50411 Key: vendo