_lucrum facere_ (opp. _damnum facere_) _ex aliqua re_—to make profit
out of a thing.
_in lucro ponere aliquid_ (Flacc. 17. 40)—to consider a thing as profit.
_debitor_, or _is qui debet_—the debtor.
_creditor_, or _is cui debeo_—the creditor.
_fides et ratio pecuniarum_—credit and financial position.
_fides_ (_vid._ sect. IX. 10, note _fides has six..._)
_concidit_—credit is going down.
_fidem derogare alicui_—to rob a person of his credit.
_fides aliquem deficere coepit_—a man's credit begins to go down.
_fides (de foro) sublata est_ (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)—credit has
disappeared.
_fides tota Italia est angusta_—credit is low throughout Italy.
_fidem moliri_ (Liv. 6. 11. 8)—to shake credit.
_laborare de pecunia_—to have pecuniary difficulties.
_in summa difficultate nummaria versari_ (Verr. 2. 28. 69)—to be in
severe pecuniary straits.
_in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci_—to be reduced to extreme
financial embarrassment.
_aes alienum_ (always in sing.) _facere, contrahere_—to incur debts.
_grande, magnum_ (opp. _exiguum_) _aes alienum conflare_—to incur
debts on a large scale.
_incidere in aes alienum_—to get into debt.
_aes alienum habere_—to be in debt.
_in aere alieno esse_—to be in debt.
_in suis nummis versari_ (Verr. 4. 6. 11)—to have no debts.
_aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse_—to be deeply in debt.
_aere alieno oppressum esse_—to have pressing debts.
_aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere_—to pay one's debts.
_nomina_ (cf. sect. XIII. 3) _solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere_—to pay
one's debts.
_nomina exigere_ (Verr. 3. 10. 28)—to demand payment of, recover debts.
_ex aere alieno exire_—to get out of debt.
_aere alieno liberari_—to get out of debt.
_versurā solvere, dissolvere_ (Att. 5. 15. 2)—to pay one's old debts
by making new.