(verb) : lŏco, āvi, ātum, 1 (old forms, locassim for locaverim, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 51; so
* Locassint,Cic. Leg. 3, 4, 11), locus, to place, put, lay, set, dispose, arrange.
* Lit.
* In gen.: equites pro cornibus,Quint. 2, 13, 3: crates adversas locari jubet,Caes. B. C. 3, 46: milites super vallum in munimentis,Sall. J. 100: cum sol ita locatus fuisset, ut, etc.,Cic. Rep. 1, 15, 23: fundamenta (urbis),Verg. A. 4, 266; cf. id. ib. 1, 428: gramineoque viros locat ipse sedili,id. ib. 8, 176: vicos,Tac. G. 16: stipendium et commeatum,Sall. J. 90.
* Trop.
* Locare puellam in matrimonium or in matrimonio, nuptiis, nuptum, or simply locare, to give a girl in marriage, to marry her to any one: cur me huic locabas nuptiis? Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38 (Trag. v. 157 Vahl.): virginem habeo grandem, neque eam queo locare quoiquam,Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 15: in matrimonium,id. Trin. 3, 3, 52: aliquam in luculentam familiam,id. Cist. 3, 2, 18: nuptum virginem adulescenti,Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 25.
* To let, lease, to hire or farm out (opp. conduco): vectigalia,Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7: portorium,id. Inv. 1, 30, 47: agrum frumento,Liv. 27, 3: praedia non nummo sed partibus,Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 3: tabernas civitatibus ad stationem,Suet. Ner. 37.
* To give out on contract, to contract for having a thing done: tu idem optimum est Loces efferendum: nam jam credo mortuus est,Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 30: impero, ut tu me quoivis castrandum loces,id. ib. 2, 2, 73: ut quod sit sibi operis locatum ecficeret,id. As. 2, 4, 37: ego operam meam tribus nummis hodie locavi ad artis naugatorias,id. Trin. 4, 2, 2: statuam faciendam,Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 16: funera,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 43, § 120: majore pecuniā columnas dealbandas, quam, etc.,id. ib. 2, 1, 59, § 154: statuas demoliendas,id. ib. 2, 2, 67, § 161: auseribus cibaria publice locantur (sc. praebenda), id. Rosc. Am. 20, 56: Junoni templum (sc. exstruendum),Liv. 5, 23: vestimenta exercitui (sc. facienda),id. 27, 10: ingentesque locat Caesonia Rhenos,Pers. 6, 47.
* Of money, to invest, place: nec quicquam argenti locavi jam diu usquam aeque bene?Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 144.
* To put or lend out money on interest: locare argenti nemini nummum queo,Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 4. —Hence, locare se, to bring in interest, to yield: disciplina (histrionis) quae erat (Panurgo) ab hoc (Roscio) tradita, locabat se non minus HS CCCICCC,Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 28.
* To quarter, establish in quarters: cohortes novis hibernaculis,Tac. A. 14, 38.
* In gen., to place, put, set, lay, fix: metuo hercle ne illa mulier mi insidias locet,Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 17: num tu pudicae quoipiam insidias locas?id. Curc. 1, 1, 25: vitam in tam clara luce locavit,Lucr. 5, 12: inter recte factum atque peccatum media locabat quaedam,Cic. Ac. 1, 10, 37: aliquem in amplissimo gradu dignitatis,id. Mur. 14, 30: civitas in Catonis et Bruti fide locata,id. Att. 6, 1, 5: omnia mea studia in Milonis magistratu fixi et locavi,id. Fam. 2, 6, 3: eo loco locati sumus, ut, etc.,id. Lael. 12, 40: vos hortor, ut ita virtutem locetis, ut eā exceptā nihil amicitiā praestabilius esse putetis,id. ib. 27, 104: res certis in personis ac temporibus locata,id. de Or. 1, 31, 138: prudentia est locata in delectu bonorum et malorum,consists in,id. Off. 3, 17, 71: beneficium apud gratos,to confer upon,Liv. 7, 20.
* (Acc. to I. B. 2. c.) To put out, as at interest; to place so as to secure a return: optumo optume optumam operam das; datam pulcre locas,Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 122: beneficia apud gratos,Liv. 7, 20, 5: benefacta male locata male facta arbitror, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 2, 18, 62 (Trag. v. 429 Vahl.).
* Locare nomen, to become surety, Phaedr. 1, 16, 1.—Hence, P. a.: lŏcātus, a, um, only as subst.: lŏcātum, i, n., that which is placed on lease, hired out, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74.

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