Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Emporos

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EM'POROS (ἔμπορος). Properly, a Greek word, and, consequently, illustrative of Greek customs; but used in a Latin form by Plautus (Merc. Prol. 9.), and Ausonius (Epist. xxii. 28.). It designates a person who acted in the double capacity of merchant and seaman; being appointed by some shipowner or capitalist to a vessel which he conducted on a voyage of traffic for the advantage of his employer; hence, in Plautus (l. c.), he is styled emporos Philemonis; i. e. who imports for his principal Philemon.