2. Money—Interest—Loans

_pecunia magna_,[1] _grandis (multum pecuniae)_—much money.

_pecunia exigua_ or _tenuis_—little money.

_pecunia praesens_ (_vid._ sect. V. 9, note _Notice too..._) or

_numerata_—cash; ready money.

_aes (argentum) signatum_—coined money; bullion.

_argentum (factum)_ (Verr. 5. 25. 63)—silver plate.

_nummi adulterini_—bad money; base coin.

_pecuniam erogare (in classem)_—to spend money.

_pecuniam insumere in aliquid_ or _consumere in aliqua re_—to devote

money to a purpose.

_pecuniam numerare alicui_ (Att. 16. 16)—to pay cash.

_pecuniam solvere_—to pay money.

_pecuniam alicui debere_—to owe some one money.

_pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)_—to lend some one money

(without interest).

_pecuniam fenori (fenore) alicui dare, accipere ab aliquo_—to lend,

borrow money at interest.

_pecuniam fenore occupare_ (Flacc. 21. 54)—to put out money at interest.

_pecuniam collocare_[2] _in aliqua re_—to put money in an undertaking.

_pecunia iacet otiosa_—the money is bringing in no interest, lies idle.

_pecuniam mutuari_ or _sumere mutuam ab aliquo_—to borrow money from

some one.

_pecuniam alicui mutuam dare_—to lend money to some one.

_pecuniam creditam solvere_—to repay a loan.

_non solvendo_[3] _esse_ (Phil. 2. 2. 4)—to be bankrupt.

_pecuniam exigere (acerbe)_—to demand payment.

_magnas pecunias ex aliqua re_ (e.g. _ex metallis_) _facere_—to have a

large income from a thing (e.g. from mines).

_nummus iactatur_ (Off. 3. 20. 80)—the bank-rate varies.

_versuram facere_ (Att. 5. 21. 12)—to transfer a debt.

_nummulis acceptis_ (Att. 1. 16. 6)—for a trifle, a beggarly pittance.

[1] In plur. _magnae, multae pecuniae_ = large sums of money.

[2] Sometimes absolutely, e.g. Cic. Off. 2. 25. 90 _pecuniam collocare_.

[3] _solvendo_ is a predicative dative. For the development of such

uses cf. _nulli rei erimus postea_ (Plaut. Stich. 718); Ovid Met. 15.

403 _dedit huic aetas vires onerique ferendo est_; Liv. 4. 35

_experiunda res est sitne aliqui plebeius ferendo magno honori_.

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