Neither a borrower nor a lender be.- From Shakespeare's Hamlet.
COMMODA´TUM is one of those obligationes which are contracted re.
He who lends to another a thing, for a definite time, to be used for a
definite purpose, without any pay or reward, is called by modern writers
commodans; the person who receives the thing is called commodatarius;
and the contract is called commodatum. The genuine Roman name for
the lender is commodator