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|lshtext=<b>manceps</b>: ĭpis, m. [[manus]]-[[capio]],<br /><b>I</b> a purchaser of [[any]] [[thing]] at a [[public]] [[auction]], a renter, [[farmer]], [[contractor]], etc. (syn.: redemtor, [[exactor]]).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[surety]], bondsman, [[bail]], = [[praes]]: ego mancipem te [[nihil]] [[moror]], Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 29.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> One [[who]] hires [[people]] to [[applaud]]: conducti et redempti mancipes, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 4.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> The [[owner]], [[proprietor]], or [[possessor]] of a [[thing]]: [[deus]] et [[manceps]] divinitatis, Tert. Apol. 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> A [[master]], [[chief]]: carceris, i. e. jailer, Prud. στεφ. 5, 345; Tert. de Spect. 10.
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