Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Bibliopola

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BIBLIOPO'LA (βιβλιοπώλης). A bookseller; whose trade consisted in collecting MSS. (Mart. Ep. iv. 72.); advertising them by catalogues affixed to the outside of his shop (Mart. Ep. i. 118. 11. Hor. Sat. i. 4. 71. Id. A. P. 373.); multiplying copies by the employment of various hands to transcribe them (Mart. Ep. ii. 8. Compare Ep. vii. 11.); and disposing of the same by sale (Plin. Ep. ix. 11.)