Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II

where they then held the assemblies, there now the market mercatus marketplace is held.

Serenus in Opuscula Little Works:

Cicero in Tusculan Disputations, book V: "Likewise we, as if in a certain celebration of a market mercatus market from some city." — [And in On Duties: "Since you have set out as if for the trade mercatura trading of good arts, it is most shameful to return empty."]

The difference between SUPERSTITIO superstition and RELIGIO religion was most clearly distinguished by M. Tullius in On the Nature of the Gods, book II: "For not only philosophers, but also our ancestors separated superstition from religion. For those who prayed and sacrificed all day, that their children might survive superstites surviving for them, were called superstitious superstitiosi; which name extended more widely afterward; those, however, who diligently reviewed and, so to speak, re-read religerent re-read/re-gather all things which pertained to the worship of the gods, these were called religious religiosi from re-reading religendo." — But truly, the superstitious have this property, that because of the worship of the gods they supersede other things, that is, they neglect them; likewise also the religious, as if they were relinquishing relinquosi all other things, they serve the sacrifices.

PEIUS worse and DETERIUS of lesser value/worse are distinguished by these senses, that peius is peius worse from malum evil; which is in use and is very frequently practiced; deterius, however, [is] from bonum good, so that it is of lesser merit than that which is pleasing. Virgil in Georgics, book IIII: