Editing Roman commerce (section)

== Commerce and religion ==
[[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]], who was originally only the god of the ''mercatores'' and the [[grain trade]]{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} eventually became the god of all who were involved in commercial activities.  On the [[Mercuralia]] on May 14, a Roman merchant would do the proper rituals of devotion to Mercury and  beseech the god to remove from him and from his belongings the guilt coming from all the cheating he had done to his customers and suppliers.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}