manceps

manceps, ĭpis, m. [manus-capio], a purchaser of any thing at a public auction, a renter, farmer, contractor, etc. (syn.: redemtor, exactor).

• I Lit.: manceps dicitur, qui quid a populo emit conducitve, quia manu sublata significat se auctorem emptionis esse: qui idem praes dicitur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 151 Müll.: postremo ne in praedae quidem societate mancipem aut praedem ... reperire potuisti, Cic. Dom. 18, 48: si res abiret ab eo mancipe, quem ipse apposuisset, contractor for building, id. Verr. 2, 1, 54, § 141: hominis studiosissimi nobilitatis manceps fit Chrysogonus, the purchaser, id. Rosc. Am. 8, 21: mancipes a civitatibus pro frumento pecuniam exegerunt, the contractors with the government, farmers, id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 33; id. Dom. 10, 25: nullius rei neque praes neque manceps, Nep. Att. 6, 3: aliquis praevalens annonam flagellet, i. e. a forestaller, speculator, Plin. 33, 13, 57, § 164: sutrinae, a keeper of a stall, id. 10, 43, 60, § 122; Plin. Ep. 3, 19: operarum, one who hires laborers to let them out again, Suet. Vesp. 1; itinera fraude mancipum et incuria magistratuum interrupta, a farmer of the revenue, farmer-general, Tac. A. 3, 31: VIAE APPIAE, Inscr. Orell. 3221.—
• II Transf.
• • A A surety, bondsman, bail, = praes: ego mancipem te nihil moror, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 29 (515).—*
  • B One who hires people to applaud: conducti et redempti mancipes, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 4.—*
  • C The owner, proprietor, or possessor of a thing: deus et manceps divinitatis, Tert. Apol. 11.—
  • D A master, chief: carceris, i. e. jailer, Prud. στεφ. 5, 345; Tert. de Spect. 10.

manceps, cipis, m. (manus u. capio), I) eig., als publiz. t. t. = der vermöge eines förmlichen u. gerichtl. anerkannten Kaufes etw. in den öffentlichen Versteigerungen an sich bringt, der Aufkäufer, Käufer von Staatsgütern, der Ersteher, Pächter öffentlicher Abgaben, der Übernehmer, Unternehmer öffentlicher Leistungen, Bauten (Wegebauten) usw., praedae, Cic.: der Güter der Proskribierten, Cic.: manceps fit Chrysogonus, Cic.: manceps annonam flagellat, Aufkäufer, Plin.: nullius rei neque praes neque manceps, Nep.: si res abiret ab eo mancipe, quem ipse apposuisset, Cic.: plurima per Italiam itinera fraude mancipum... interrupta, Tac. – II) übtr.: 1) übh., der Mieter, Pächter, sutrinae, Suet.: operarum, der Arbeiter in Lohn nimmt u. sie mit Vorteil anderen wieder überläßt, Suet.: vom Pächter eines Ackers, Plin. ep.: vom Mieter der Claqueure für eine Vorlesung, Plin. ep. – 2) (weil die Unternehmer mit Hab u. Gut für das Übernommene Bürgschaft leisten mußten) ein Bürge, Plaut. Curc. 515. – 3) der Eigentümer, Besitzer einer Sache übh., Tert. apol. 11. – ➳ Genet. arch. mancupis, Varro LL. 5, 40: Dat. mancupi, Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 3824, 5 u. 19: Akk. mancupem, Plaut. Curc. 515: Genet. Plur. mancupum, Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 200, 46 u. 100, vulg. mancipium, Tert. ad nat. 2, 2.

manceps [CL] , a contractor, agent. b servant. c manciple. a ~ceps carceris, i. servus, agend, cweartenweard GlP 796; pernoctes attabernales juges lenociniorum sunt ~cipes Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 3.  b hic ~ceps, -is, similiter pro servo Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 335.  c 1569 sicut patet per billam ~cipis REED Cambridge 255.

manceps, (12) ĭpis, m. (manus, capio), ¶ 1 acheteur, acquéreur, [ou] adjudicataire, fermier [cf. P. Fest. 161 ] : Cic. Domo 48 ; Amer. 21 || Cæcil. 33 ; Verr. 2, 1, 141 ; Plin. 10, 122 ¶ 2 entrepreneur de travaux pour lʼÉtat : Tac. Ann. 3, 31 || operarum Suet. Vesp. 1, qui prend à gages des manœuvres || entrepreneur dʼapplaudissements, chef de claque : Plin. Min. Ep. 2, 14, 4 || qui prend à ferme une dette, qui se charge de la payer, caution : Pl. Curc. 515 ; Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 3 ¶ 3 maître, propriétaire : Tert. Apol. 11.

manceps , ipis. adj. m. (manus.)
催錢糧者。奉官買之人。獨賣者。包工之保人。

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manceps ipis, m

• manus+CAP-, one who takes formal possession, a legal purchaser: manceps fit Chrysogonus.—A purchaser by lifting the hand, buyer at auction: pecuniam mancipibus dedi.—A public contractor, farmer of revenues: mancipes a civitatibus pecuniam exegerunt: nullius rei, N.—A contractor: si res abiret ab eo mancipe, contractor for building.

MANCEPS

MANCEPShas the same relation to mancipium that auspex has to auspicium, and in its original sense = is qui manu capit or qui mancipat; that is, it means an acquirer or purchaser of a thing by the form of conveyance called mancipium or mancipatio (mancipio accipiens, see MANCIPIUM; cf. Tertull. Apolog. 11). But at. an early time the word was also used to signify party conveying by mancipation (mancipio dans), in which sense it is equivalent to emanceps (Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 29).

From its original meaning manceps derived several special significations. It frequently means a person who purchases or hires a thing at a public auction. Mancipes were they who bid at the public lettings of the censors for the purpose of farming any part of the public property (Festus, s. v. Manceps: Manceps dicitur qui quid a populo emit conducitve quia, &c.). Sometimes the chief of the Publicani generally are meant by this term, as they were the bidders for the public revenue and gave the security, and then they shared the undertaking with others or underlet it (Ascon. ad Div. in Caecil. 10, 33). These mancipes would accordingly have distinctive names, according to the kind of revenue which they took on lease, as Decumani, Portitores, Pecuarii. Suetonius ( Vesp. 1) says that the father of Petro was a manceps of labourers (operae), who went yearly from Umbria to Sabinum to cultivate the land; that is, he hired them from their masters and paid so much for the use of them, as has been often done in slave countries. Conductores Thermarum et Salinarum are called mancipes in the Theodosian Code (14, 5, 1). The word is also used in the Theodosian Code to denote a class of public officials (8, 5, 53; 60, 24, 65, mancipes locorum). In one place of this Code (14, 16, 2) manceps means a manager or manciple of a public bakery. (See Forcellini, Lex.; Dirksen, Manuale, s. v.; and Voigt, XII. Tafeln, 2.84, n. 4.)

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Manceps

One who acquired possession of a thing by the form of conveyance known as mancipatio (q. v.).