I.gain, profit, advantage (syn.: quaestus, compendium; cf.: commodum, fructus).
I. Lit.: “rem gero et facio lucrum,” Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 34: “quoi di sunt homini propitii lucrum ei obiciunt,” id. Curc. 4, 2, 44: “non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existumo,” id. Capt. 2, 2, 75: “lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere),” id. ib. 2, 2, 77: “vendendi quaestu et lucro ducerentur,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 9: “aliquid ad praedam lucrumque revocare,” id. Phil. 3, 12, 30: “qui ex publicis vectigalibus tanta lucra fecit,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 38, § 86: “frumentaria lucra exigere,” id. ib. 2, 3, 37, § “85: dat de lucro, nihil detrahit de vivo: minus igitur lucri facit,” id. Fl. 37, 91: “lucri bonus est odor ex re qualibet,” Juv. 14, 208: lucro est, it is profitable, advantageous: “nobis lucro fuisti potius quam decori tibi,” Plaut. As. 1, 3, 40: “amanti amoenitas malo est, nobis lucro,” id. Men. 2, 3, 5: “quod in divinis rebus sumptumst sapienti lucrost,” id. Mil. 3, 1, 81; id. Cist. 1, 1, 52: ponere or deputare in lucro, to count as gain: “omne id deputare esse in lucro,” Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 16; 21: “id ego in lucris pono,” Cic. Fam. 7, 24, 1; cf.: “quem sors dierum cunque dabit lucro Appone,” Hor. C. 1, 9, 14: “in lucro, quae datur hora, mihi est,” Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 67: lucri facere, to gain, get the credit of: “quae ille universa naturali quodam bono fecit lucri,” Nep. Thras. 1; “v. lucrifacio: lucrum et damnum,” profit and loss, Gai. Inst. 3, 150; Ulp. Fragm. 25, 15; cf.: “qui mensis damnis, quae dentur tempora lucro,” Juv. 6, 571: quom scis jam senex, tum in otium Te conloces, dum potis ames; “id jam lucrist, Quor vivas,” Plaut. Merc. 3, 2, 10: “de lucro prope jam quadriennium vivimus,” i. e. as by a miracle, in constant, imminent danger of death, Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 1: “de lucro tibi vivere me scito,” Liv. 40, 8, 2: “qui (Mercurius) me in mercimoniis Juvit lucrisque quadruplicavit rem meam,” Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 4.—
II. Transf.
A. Love of gain, avarice: “lucri pallida tabes,” Luc. 4, 96: “impius lucri furor,” Sen. Hippol. 4, 540.—
B. Wealth, riches: “omne lucrum tenebris alta premebat humus,” Ov. Am. 3, 8, 35: “periculosum semper putavi lucrum,” Phaedr. 5, 4, 8: “non turpe lucrum sectantes,” Vulg. 1 Tim. 3, 8.
