(verb) : vendĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To offer again and again for sale, to try to sell (class., esp. in the trop. sense).
* Lit.: Tusculanum venditat,Cic. Att. 1, 14, 7: mercem,Auct. Her. 4, 6, 9: agellum (opp. emere),Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 1: piscinas grandi aere,Col. 8, 16, 5: olus,Plin. 22, 22, 38, § 80: mutationes stativorum,Tac. H. 1, 66: hordeum colonis,App. M. 7, p. 194, 36: non ego possum, quae ipsa sese venditat, tutarier, i. e. prostitutes herself, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 41; cf. id. Curc. 4, 1, 21.
* Trop., to cry up, praise, commend, recommend, blazon: istius omnia decreta, imperia, litteras peritissime et callidissime venditabat,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 135; cf. id. ib. 2, 4, 59, § 133: pacem pretio,Liv. 38, 42, 11: munera principis et adipiscendorum honorum jus,Tac. A. 1, 49 med.: suam operam,Liv. 44, 25, 5; Quint. 12, 7, 6: ingenii venditandi aut memoriae ostentandae causā,Auct. Her. 2, 30, 47: obsequium amatori,Liv. 39, 43, 9: valde te venditavi,i. e. have praised you,Cic. Att. 1, 16, 16.
* Esp.: se alicui, pay court to, conciliate, etc.: quo modo se venditant Caesari?i. e. do they ingratiate themselves with him,Cic. Att. 8, 16, 1: existimationi hominum,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 132: quod non florentibus se venditavit,Nep. Att. 11, 3: se plebi,Liv. 3, 35, 5: se senatui litteris,Vell. 2, 63, 3.
* To betray: qui perduellionis venditat patriam,Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15.