I.a lending on interest, usury (class.): “haec pecunia tota ab honoribus translata est in quaestum et faenerationem,” Cic. Fl. 23, 56: “nec enim, si tuam ob causam cuiquam commodes, beneficium illud habendum est, sed faeneratio,” id. Fin. 2, 35, 117; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 72, § 168; Col. 1 praef. § 8.
faenĕrātĭo (less correctly fēn-, foen- ), ōnis, f. id.,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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