vendĭtātĭo
Meaning
- a specious display
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Jactatio · Gloriatio · Ostentatio · Venditatio
Jactatio and gloriatio have their foundation in vanity and self-complacency; jactatio is making much ado of one’s excellencies and merits, and shows itself in words and actions, with the accessory notion of folly; gloriatio is talking big, proclaiming one’s excellencies and merits, with the accessory notion of insolence; whereas ostentatio and venditatio have their foundation in a crafty calculation of the effect to be produced, and a disregard to truth; ostentatio would conceal real emptiness under a false show; venditatio would, by exaggerating one’s excellencies, pass them off for greater than they are.
quin etiam mihi quidem laudabiliora videntur omnia, quae sine venditatione et sine populo teste fiunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64: venditatio atque ostentatio, id. Lael. 23, 86: ostentatio artis et portentosa scientiae venditatio, Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 25.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.