_negotiatores_[1] (Verr. 2. 69. 168)—business-men.
_homines negotii_ (always in sing.) _gerentes_—business-men.
_negotii bene gerentes_ (Quint. 19. 62)—good men of business.
_negotium obire_ or _exsequi_—to be engaged upon a transaction, carry
it out.
_negotium (rem) conficere, absolvere_—to settle, finish a transaction.
_mercaturam facere_—to be engaged in commerce, wholesale business.
_negotia habere (in Sicilia)_—to have commercial interests in Sicily.
_contrahere rem_ or _negotium cum aliquo_ (Cluent. 14. 41)—to have
business relations with some one.
_transigere aliquid (de aliqua re) cum aliquo_ or _inter se_—to
transact, settle a matter with some one.
_nihil cum aliquo contrahere_—to do no business with a man.
_quaestum facere_ (Fam. 15. 14)—to make money.
_quaestui aliquid habere_ (Off. 2. 3. 13)—to make a profit out of
something.
_res, quae importantur et exportantur_—imports and exports.
_exponere, proponere merces (venales)_—to set out goods for sale.
_parvo, vili pretio_ or _bene emere_—to buy cheaply.
_magno_ or _male emere_—to buy dearly.
_aliquid magno, parvo stat, constat_—a thing costs much, little.
_aliquid nihilo_ or _gratis constat_—a thing costs nothing.
_pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere_ (Att. 13. 22)—to fix a
price for a thing.
[1] The usual term for men of business are _negotiator, mercator,
caupo, institor_. The first two are used of merchants, wholesale
dealers, _negotiator_ especially when talking of the transactions
(_negotia_) of business, _mercator_ with reference to the profits
(_merces_). _caupo_ is a retail dealer, tradesman, shopkeeper;
_institor_, a pedlar, commercial traveller.