vecto

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μηδὲν κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλὰ καταπάττειν χύδην → not to sell by the cupful, but to dole out indiscriminately | not to sell by retail but wholesale

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vecto: āvi, ātum, 1,
I v. freq. a veho, to bear, carry, convey (perh. not ante-Aug.): delphinum dorso super fluctus edito vectavisse (Arionem), Gell. 16, 19, 16: corpora viva nefas Stygiā vectare carinā, Verg. A. 6, 391: plaustris ornos, id. ib. 11, 138: saucia corpora vectet aquā, Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 46; cf. v. 39.—Pass., to be carried or borne, to ride: vectabor umeris, Hor. Epod. 17, 74: vectari equis, to ride on horseback, Ov. M. 8, 374; Just. 41, 3, 4; Curt. 3, 3, 22: octophoro, App Mag. p. 323.