mancipatio
οἵ γε καὶ ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀντιπάλως μᾶλλον ἢ ὑποδεεστέρως τῷ ναυτικῷ ἀνθώρμουν → whose navy, even as it was, faced the Athenian more as an equal than as an inferior
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mancĭpātĭo: (mancŭp-), ōnis, f. mancipo,
I a making over, delivery, transfer of a thing to another; one of the modes of acquiring possession by the Roman civil law; hence, also, for purchase: qui mancipio accipit, apprehendere id ipsum, quod ei mancipio datur, necesse sit: unde etiam mancipatio dicitur, quia manu res capitur, Gai. Inst. 1, 121 (v. the passage in full under mancipium): mancupationem tabulis probare, the purchase, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 117.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mancĭpātĭō et mancŭpātĭō, ōnis, f. (mancipo), mancipation, aliénation de la propriété avec certaines formes solennelles : Gaius Inst. 1, 121 || vente : Plin. 9, 117.
