cōmicē

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    Comice, pen. corr. Aduerbium. Cic. En joueur de farces, Comiquement, Joyeusement.

cōmicē, Adv. (comicus), nach Art der Komödie, komisch (Ggstz. tragice), Cic. de or. 3, 30. Sen. ep. 100, 10.

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1) тащить, влечь ( aliquem comis O); тянуть, привлекать ( aliquem in judiciis C)

2) ощупывать, осязать, касаться, трогать (aliquid manu Pl etc.)

3) обрабатывать ( lanam Just)

4) мять, разминать ( pollĭce ceram O)

5) приготовлять (dapes H; venēna C, H)

6) руководить, заведовать, управлять ( pecuniam publicam C)

7) обращаться, поступать

8) исследовать, изучать, обсуждать, разбирать (definitionem alicujus rei C; quaestionem PM; proeliorum vias T); трактовать ( res tragicas comĭce C)

9) вести переговоры, договариваться, обсуждать ( condiciones Cs или de condicionibus Nep)

ōrātōriē, Adv. (oratorius), rednerisch, Cic. u.a.: Ggstz. tragice, comice, Sen. ep. 100. § 10.

tracto, āvī, ātum, āre (Frequ. von traho), I) schleppen, herumschleppen, -zerren, -ziehen (s. Lorenz Plaut. mil. 489), qui te sic tractavere, Enn. fr.: hospita tractata et ludificata, Plaut.: tractata comis antistita, Ov.: malis morsuque tractari ferarum, Lucr.: eiusmodi persona, quae propter otium ac studium minime in iudiciis periculisque tractata est, Cic. Arch. 3. – II) betasten, berühren, 1) eig.: a) übh.: manu od. manibus alqd, Plaut., Cic. fr.: vulnera, Cic.: fila lyrae, schlagen, spielen, Ov. – b) behandeln, mit etw. sich beschäftigen, umgehen, etw. in die Hand nehmen, bearbeiten, handhaben, regieren, Plaut., Hor. u. Colum.: res igni, Lucr.: ceram pollice, Ov.: ferrum, Iustin.: gubernacula, Cic.: terram, Lucr.: agrum, Colum.: arma, mit Waffen umgehen, sie tragen, Cic. u.a.: tela, Liv.: pecuniam publicam, besorgen, Cic.: bibliothecam, unter den Händen haben, Cic.: ignarus sua se tractare pericla, daß er mit seinen eigenen G. spiele (tändele), Ov. – 2) übtr.: a) im allg., α) betreiben, behandeln, handhaben, leiten, führen, verwalten, artem, Ter.: suam rem minus caute et cogitate, Plaut.: causas amicorum tractare atque agere, führen u. verhandeln, Cic. (u. so numquam tractasse causam difficiliorem, Cic.): bellum, Liv.: tr. condiciones, verhandeln über usw., Caes.: u. so condiciones pacis, Liv.: orationem, Cic.: animos, Cic.: alcis personam in

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scaena praeclare, spielen, vom Schauspieler, Cic.: partes secundas, spielen, Hor.: Atreum, behandeln, handelnd einführen (v. Dichter), Cic.: rem publicam, Sall.: regnum, Tac.: aerarium, Tac.: pauca admodum vi tractata, nur in seltenen Fällen habe man Gewalt angewandt, Tac. ann. 1, 9: vitam hominum, entwickeln, Cic. de rep. 2, 20: vitam honeste, zubringen, Cornif. rhet. 4, 33 (wo Kayser unnötig transactam emendiert hat): vitam more ferarum, Lucr. 5, 929: verba vetera, gebrauchen, Quint. 11, 1, 6. – β) intr., verhandeln, unterhandeln, Unterhandlung pflegen, de condicionibus, Nep.: cum alqo de negotiis ad frequentem senatum referendis, Suet. – b) insbes.: α) jmd. behandeln, sich gegen ihn betragen, aspere, Cic.: honorificentius, Cic.: honorificentissime, Cic. ep.: se benignius, sich gütlich tun, Hor. Vgl. Ruhnken Ter. heaut. 2, 3, 125. – β) se, sich benehmen, ita se tractare (sich so benehmen, eine solche Haltung beobachten), ut etc., Cic. Cat. 3, 29; ep. 13, 12, 1. – γ) behandeln, vornehmen, in die Hand nehmen, untersuchen, überdenken, überlegen, definitionem, Cic.: tractatos locos, Cic. – m. folg. an, anxiā deliberatione tractatur, an peregrinum invitari conveniet, Amm. 14, 6, 14. – δ) behandeln, abhandeln, besprechen, erörtern, res tragicas comice, Cic.: haec copiose, Quint.: partem philosophiae, Cic.: de alqa re, von etwas handeln, Quint. – mit folg. indir. Frage-

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satz, cum tractaret (er sich darüber ausließ), quinam adipisci principem locum suffecturi abnuerent aut impares vellent, Tac. ann. 1, 13. – prägn. = die Bibel auslegen, Prud. perist. 13, 101.

tragicē, Adv. (tragicus), tragisch, tragödienartig (Ggstz. comice, rhetorice, oratorie), Cic. Brut. 43. Sen. ep. 100, 10. Chalcid. Tim. 143.

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bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

cŏlumna, ae, f. [root cel- of excello; v. columen, of which it is orig. a collat. form].

A projecting object, a column, pillar, post (very freq.), Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sq.; 3, 3; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 11:

columnae et templa et porticus sustinent, tamen habent non plus utilitatis quam dignitatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180; id. Verr. 2, 1, 51, §§ 133 and 134; Quint. 5, 13, 40:

columnae Doricae, Ionicae, Tuscanicae, Corinthiae, Atticae,

Plin. 36, 22, 56, § 178 sq.; Vitr. 4, 1, 1 sqq.: Rostrata, a column ornamented with beaks of ships, erected in honor of Duellius, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, Quint. 1, 7, 12 Spald.; fragments of the inscription on it are yet extant, v. in the Appendix: Maenia, also absol. Columna, a pillory in the Forum Romanum, where thieves, criminal slaves, and debtors were judged and punished, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 50 Ascon.— Absol.: ad columnam pervenire. Cic. Clu. 13, 39:

adhaerescere ad columnam,

id. Sest. 8, 18; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v. columna.— Plur.:

columnae, as the sign of a bookseller's shop,

Hor. A. P 373 Orell. ad loc.—From the use of pillars to designate boundaries of countries:

Columnae Protei = fines Aegypti,

Verg. A. 11, 262; and:

Columnae Herculis, i. e. Calpe et Abyla,

Mel. 1, 5, 3; 2, 6, 8; Plin. 3, prooem. § 4; Tac. G. 34.—Prov.:

incurrere amentem in columnas,

Cic. Or. 67, 224.—

Trop., a pillar, support; of Augustus, Hor. C. 1, 35, 14.—

Transf., of objects resembling a pillar; so,

Of the arm (comice):

ecce autem aedificat: columnam mento suffigit suo,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 54. —

A water-spout, Lucr. 6, 426; 6, 433; Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134.—

Of fire, a meteor, Sen. Q. N. 7, 20, 2; cf.

of the pillar of cloud and of fire which guided the Exodus,

Vulg. Exod. 13, 21 sq. —

Membrum virile, Mart. 6, 49; 11, 51; Auct. Priap. 9, 8.—

Narium recta pars eo quod aequaliter sit in longitudine et rotunditate porrecta, columna vocatur, Isid. Orig. 11, 1, 48.—

The top, summit; so only once of the dome of heaven, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 21; cf. columen.

cōmĭcus, a, um, adj., = kômikos, of or pertaining to comedy, comic:

poëta,

Cic. Or. 20, 67:

artificium,

id. Rosc. Com. 10, 18:

levitates,

id. N. D. 3, 29, 72:

res,

the material of comedy, Hor. A. P. 89:

scaenae,

Vitr. 5, 8:

gestus,

Quint. 11, 3, 125:

senarius,

id. 9, 4, 140:

ad morem,

id. 1, 8, 3: virtus (Terentii), C. Caes. ap. Suet. Vit. Ter. 5:

persona,

Quint. 11, 3, 79; Plin. 25, 11, 88, § 137:

auctores,

Quint. 2, 10, 13.—

Esp., represented in comedy:

ut comici servi solent,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 11: stulti senes, Caecil. ap. Cic. Sen. 11, 36, and Lael. 26, 99; so,

adulescens,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 47:

Davus,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 91:

moecha Thais,

Prop. 4 (5), 5, 44:

aurum = lupinum,

lupines, used by comic actors instead of money, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 20.—

Subst.: cōmĭcus, i, m.

An actor of comedy, a comedian, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 4; id. Pers. 4, 2, 4; Inscr. Grut. 1089, 6. —More freq.,

A comic poet, writer of comedy, Cic. Or. 55, 184; Quint. 1, 7, 22; 2, 16, 3; 9, 3, 14; 10, 1, 72; 11, 1, 38; 12, 2, 22.— Adv.: cōmĭcē, in the manner of comedy:

res tragicas tractare,

Cic. de Or. 3, 8, 30; cf. Sen. Ep. 100, 10.

commēto ( conm-), āre, v. freq. n. [commeo, II.], to go frequently, Afran. and Novius ap. Non. p. 89, 30 sq.:

ad mulierculam,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 35.—With acc. of distance:

nam meus scruposam victus conmetat viam,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82.

com-mēto ( con-m-), āre, 1, v. a.; to measure thoroughly; comice:

nimis bene ora commetavi atque ex meā sententiā,

i. e. with my fists, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 30 Brix ad loc. (al. commentavi).

commēto ( conm-), āre, v. freq. n. [commeo, II.], to go frequently, Afran. and Novius ap. Non. p. 89, 30 sq.:

ad mulierculam,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 35.—With acc. of distance:

nam meus scruposam victus conmetat viam,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82.

com-mēto ( con-m-), āre, 1, v. a.; to measure thoroughly; comice:

nimis bene ora commetavi atque ex meā sententiā,

i. e. with my fists, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 30 Brix ad loc. (al. commentavi).