Deidre stopped to admire bouquets being sold on a street corner.
If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.
Caesar sold on a single occasion in Gaul 63,000 captives.
Thanks to his father's excellent advice, he gave up writing doggerel verse (much of which had been printed by his brother and sold on the streets) and turned to prose composition.
In the Comitium was an "area Volcani," also called "Volcanal"; and here on the 23rd of August (Volcanalia) the Flamen Volcanalis sacrificed, and the heads of Roman families threw into the fire small fish, which the Tiber fishermen sold on the spot.