manui pretium

mănŭprĕtĭum ( mănĭpr-; and as two words, mănŭs prĕtĭum and mă-nŭi prĕtĭum; v. Weissenb. ad Liv. 34, 7, 4), ii, n. [1. manus-pretium], a workman's or artist's pay, wages.

I.

Lit.:

manupretium dabo,

Plaut. Men. 3, 3, 17:

in auro, praeter manus pretium, nihil intertrimenti fit,

Liv. 34, 7:

ex manipretio cujusque signi denarios deponere aureos singulos,

Plin. 34, 7, 17, § 37.—

B.

Trop., pay, reward:

manupretium perditae civitatis,

Cic. Pis. 24, 57:

castrensium laborum tarda manupretia,

Sen. Ep. 101, 6.—

II.

Transf., the value of the work in a thing made by art, the workmanship (opp. to the material; postclass.): manupretium dicitur, ubi non tam materiae ratio, quam manus atque artis ducitur, Ps. - Ascon. ap. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

plerumque plus est in manus pretio, quam in re,

Dig. 50, 16, 13.