caupones
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caupo, cauponis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Late
shopkeeper, salesman, huckster; innkeeper, keeper of a tavern;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- T
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sumptus petunt. stat fullo, phyrgio, aurifex, lanarius; caupones patagiarii, indusiarii, flammarii, violarii, carinarii; stant manulearii, stant ~ murobatharii, propolae..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ante falas delphinorumque columnas an saga uendenti nubat caupone relicto. hae tamen et partus subeunt discrimen et omnis..."