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pondus, ĕris, n. [pendo], a weight.

Lit.

In gen., a weight used in a scale, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

pondera ab Gallis allata iniqua,

Liv. 5, 48 fin.:

utuntur taleis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis pro numo,

Caes. B. G. 5, 12; Dig. 19, 1, 32: pondera publica, Paul. ex Fest. p. 246 Müll.—

In partic., the weight of a pound, a pound (very rare for the usual pondo):

dupondius a duobus ponderibus, quod unum pondus assipondium dicebatur. Id ideo, quod as erat libra pondus,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 Müll.:

argenti pondera quinque,

Mart. 7, 53, 12.—

Transf.

In abstr.

Heaviness, weight of a body:

moveri gravitate et pondere,

Cic. Fat. 11, 24; 10, 22; 20, 46; id. Tusc. 1, 17, 40:

magni ponderis saxa,

Caes. B. G. 2, 29; 7, 22:

emere aliquid pondere,

by weight, Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 29; 35, 17, 57, § 197; Tac. A. 6, 26; cf.:

in his quae pondere constant,

Dig. 18, 1, 35 med.; Gai. Inst. 2, 196:

id, quod pondere continetur,

Dig. 30, 1, 47.—

In plur.: pondera, balance, equipoise, equilibrium:

pendebat in aëre tellus Ponderibus librata suis,

Ov. M. 1, 13; so Luc. 1, 57; cf. Lucr. 2, 218 and 6, 574:

trans pondera (corporis) dextram Porrigere (= ultra libramentum sive aequilibrium corporis),

out of balance, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 51; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. II. p. 380 sq.; cf.

also: quis libravit in pondere montes et colles in staterā?

Vulg. Isa. 40, 12.—

In concr.

A heavy body, a weight, mass, load, burden:

in terram feruntur omnia suo nutu pondera,

Cic. Rep. 6, 17, 17:

grande auri pondus,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45; so,

innumerabile pondus auri,

id. Sest. 43, 93:

magnum argenti pondus expositum,

Caes. B. C. 3, 96:

aeris magnum pondus,

id. ib. 3, 103; Stat. Th. 6, 648:

immania pondera baltei,

Verg. A. 10, 496:

Spartani pondera disci,

Mart. 14, 164, 1.— Poet., of the fruit of the womb, Ov. M. 9, 684; id. Am. 2, 14, 14; Prop. 4, 1, 96 (5, 1, 100); Mart. 14, 151;

of the privy parts,

Cat. 63, 5; Stat. S. 3, 4, 77.—

A quantity, number, multitude (anteclass. and very rare): magnum pondus omnium artificum, Varr. ap. Non. 466, 5.—

Trop.

Weight, consequence, importance, consideration, influence, authority, etc. (class.; cf.

momentum): persona non qualiscumque testimonii pondus habet,

Cic. Top. 19, 73:

grave ipsius conscientiae pondus est,

id. N. D. 3, 35, 85; cf.:

(honestas) aut sola expetenda est... aut certe omni pondere gravior habenda quam reliqua omnia,

id. Off. 3, 8, 35:

id est maximi momenti et ponderis,

id. Vatin. 4, 9:

qui pondus habent,

id. Att. 11, 6, 1: habet vim in ingenio [p. 1396] et pondus in vitā, id. de Or. 2, 74, 302:

magnum pondus accessit ad tollendum dubitationem, judicium et consilium tuum,

id. Fam. 11, 29, 1:

ut is intellegat, hanc meam commendationem magnum apud te pondus habuisse,

id. ib. 13, 25; cf.:

ut is intellegat meas apud te litteras maximum pondus habuisse,

id. Fam. 12, 27; 13, 35, 2:

tuae litterae maximi sunt apud me ponderis,

id. ib. 2, 19, 2:

ejus filius eodem est apud me pondere, quo fuit ille,

id. Att. 10, 1. 1.—Of style:

omnium verborum ponderibus est utendum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

fabula sine pondere et arte,

Hor. A. P. 320; cf.:

nugis addere pondus,

id. Ep. 1, 19, 42.—

Oppressive weight, burden ( poet. for onus):

curarum,

Luc. 9, 951; Stat. Th. 4, 39:

rerum,

Ov. Tr. 2, 237; Mart. 6, 64, 14:

tauri ruentis In Venerem tolerare pondus,

Hor. C. 2, 5, 4:

amara senectae Pondera,

Ov. M. 9, 438:

Constantius, insolentiae pondera gravius librans,

Amm. 14, 5, 1.—

Weight of character, i. e. firmness, constancy ( poet.):

nulla diu femina pondus habet,

Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 22:

nostri reverentia ponderis obstat,

Stat. Th. 1, 289:

hilaris, tamen cum pondere, virtus,

id. S. 2, 3, 65; cf. id. ib. 5, 3, 246.

quantus, a, um, adj. [quam], how great.

Bellum, Nep. Dat. 5, 1:

calamitates,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 86:

homo in dicendo,

id. de Or. 2, 12, 51:

gravitas,

Vell. 2, 129, 2.—Corresp. with tantus:

videre mihi videor tantam dimicationem, quanta numquam fuit,

Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2.—With sup.:

tanta est inter eos, quanta maxima esse potest, morum studiorumque distantia,

the greatest possible difference, Cic. Lael. 20, 74.—Without tantus:

quantus non unquam antea, exercitus venit,

Liv. 9, 37, 2:

quanta maxime poterat vi perculit,

id. 9, 10, 10; cf. id. 7, 9, 8; 42, 15, 1; 24, 35, 5; Verg. A. 12, 701; 3, 641:

quanta mea sapientia est,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 62.—Quantus quantus, for quantuscumque, how great or much soever (ante-class.):

denegabit quantum quantum ad eum erit delatum,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 28:

tu, quantus quantus, nihil nisi sapientia es,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40:

quanta quanta haec mea paupertas est, tamen,

id. Phorm. 5, 7, 10. — In quantum, as far as, according as, in how far, in so far as, to whatever extent:

in quantum satis erat,

Tac. Or. 2:

declamatio, in quantum maxime potest, imitetur eas actiones,

Quint. 2, 10, 4; Sen. Ben. 2, 23, 1:

pedum digitos, in quantum quaeque secuta est, Traxit,

Ov. M. 11, 71:

in quantum potuerit,

as far as possible, Plin. Ep. 10, 75. — With a preceding in tantum, as greatly... as:

vir in tantum laudandus, in quantum intellegi virtus potest,

Vell. 1, 9.—

Of number, value, etc., how much, how many:

quanta milia,

Prop. 1, 5, 10; Val. Fl. 3, 261. —And with or without tantus, as much as, as many as, Caes. B. G. 6, 19; Liv. 23, 21.—

As a designation of multitude, quantum = emphatic omnis: ut te quidem omnes di deaeque, quantum est, perduint,

as many as there are of them, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 6:

quantum in terra degit, hominum perjurissime!

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 117.— quantum, subst., with gen., as much of... as:

quantum est frumenti hornotini, exaraverunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 45.— Quanti, as gen. pretii, how high, how dear, or as dear as, as high as: quanti emi potest minime, how cheap? Ep. Ad quadraginta minas, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 110:

quanti emit?

Ter. Eun. 5, 6 (5), 14:

quanti locaverint, tantam pecuniam redemptori solvendam,

Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 16:

vide, quanti apud me sis,

how highly I prize you, how dear you are to me, id. Fam. 7, 19 init.:

noli spectare, quanti sit homo,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4:

(tu) qui scias quanti Tulliam faciam,

id. Fam. 2, 16, 5:

quanti est ista hominum gloria,

of how trifling worth, id. Rep. 6, 23, 25; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 37, 109:

quanti est sapere!

what a fine thing it is! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 21:

quanti ejus intersit,

Dig. 43, 18, 3.—Quanti quanti, at whatever price:

sed quanti quanti, bene emitur quod necesse est,

Cic. Att. 12, 23, 3.—Quanto opere, sometimes as one word, quantopere (q. v.), with what care, how greatly, how much (answering to tanto opere or tantopere, so greatly, so much):

quanto se opere custodiant bestiae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126:

quantoque opere ejus municipii causā laborarem,

id. Fam. 13, 7, 1.—Hence,

quantum, adv., as much as, so much as:

scribe, quantum potes,

Cic. Att. 9, 7, 7.—Quantum possum or potest, as soon as possible:

domum me rursum, quantum potero, tantum recipiam,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 40: rescribas ad me, quantum potest, Cic. Att. 4, 13, 1:

erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit,

so far as I hear, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12:

quantum suspicor,

as far as I can conjecture, id. Eun. 1, 2, 62.—Quantum in or ad me, so far as concerns me:

non igitur adhuc, quantum quidem in te est, intellego deos esse,

i. e. for all you have shown to the contrary, Cic. N. D. 3, 7, 15; cf. id. Ac. 1, 2, 8:

quantum ad Pirithoum, Phaedra pudica fuit,

as far as concerned, with respect to, Ov. A. A. 1, 744:

quantum ad jus attinet,

Sen. Contr. 5, 34, 16; 3, 16, 1.—With compp. for quanto, the more, the greater, etc. (cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 488, A, 2).—Followed by eo:

quantum juniores patrum plebi se magis insinuabant, eo acrius contra tribuni tenebant,

Liv. 3, 15, 2; 44, 7, 6; Col. 12, 23 init. —Followed by tanto:

quantum augebatur militum numerus, tanto majore, etc.,

Liv. 5, 10, 5; 6, 38, 5; 27, 47, 11; cf. id. 32, 5, 1. — Also without a correl.:

quantum... et minus,

Liv. 44, 36, 5.—

quantō, adv., by how much, by as much as, according as, the:

quanto diutius Abest, magis cupio tanto,

the longer he is away, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 15:

quanto gravior oppugnatio, tanto crebriores,

Caes. B. G. 5, 44:

quanto magis philosophi delectabunt, si, etc.,

how greatly, Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

quanto praeclarior vita, tanto,

Sall. J. 85, 22 Kritz. — With verbs which contain the idea of comparison:

Hannibalem tanto praestitisse ceteros imperatores prudentiā, quanto populus Romanus antecedebat fortitudine cunctas nationes,

Nep. Hann. 1, 1.—With posit.:

tanto acceptius in vulgum, quanto modicus privatis aedificationibus,

inasmuch as, Tac. A. 6, 45:

quanto frequenter impellitur, tanto firmiter roboratur,

Lact. 5, 7, 9.—With ante, secus, aliud:

quo minus exponam, quam multa ad me detulerit, quanto ante providerit,

Cic. Sest. 3, 8: videtote, quanto secus ego fecerim, how differently, Cato ap. Charis. p. 192 P.:

ut manifesto appareat, quanto sit aliud proximum esse, aliud secundum,

Quint. 10, 1, 53.

rĕ-censĕo, sŭi, sum, and sītum (recensus, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 5 med.; and Suet. Caes. 41; id. Vesp. 9, acc. to the better read., recensitus; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 60; Prud. Apoth. 1069), 2, v. a.

Lit., to count, enumerate, number, reckon, survey (syn.: numero; class., but not in Cic.; see, however, recensio): haec in Aeduorum finibus recensebantur numerusque inibatur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 76; cf.:

recensuit captivos, quot cujusque populi essent,

Liv. 26, 49:

omnem suorum numerum,

Verg. A. 6, 682:

captivos ordine pisces,

Ov. M. 13, 932:

biduo acceptam cladem,

Liv. 10, 36, 15:

pecus et familiam,

Col. 1, 8 fin.:

et recensuit Saul populum,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 13, 15.—

Transf., to examine, review, muster, survey (mostly post - Aug.):

vestem servitiorum et ferramenta, bis singulis mensibus (along with recognitio),

Col. 11, 1, 21:

loca ab initio,

Quint. 11, 2, 20 et saep.:

vellera ad numerum pecoris,

Col. 12, 3, 9: qui recensi (recensiti) non essent, who had not been received or considered (in the distribution of the public corn), Suet. Caes. 41 fin. —Esp., of troops, etc., to review:

exercitum,

Liv. 1, 16:

in recensendo exercitu,

Suet. Calig. 44:

legiones,

Liv. 2, 39:

equites,

id. 40, 46; 43, 16.— Poet.:

signa recensuerat bis sol sua,

had gone through, run through, Ov. F. 3, 575.—

Trop., to go over in thought, in narration, or in critical treatment, to reckon up, recount, review, revise ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose), Stat. S. 5, 3, 20; cf.:

fata fortunasque virūm moresque manusque,

Verg. A. 6, 683:

fortia facta,

Ov. H. 9, 105; so,

deploratos Priamidas,

id. M. 13, 481:

parva exempla,

Stat. S. 4, 1, 29:

haec recensente pictore,

App. M. 9, p. 229, 2:

ut post recenserentur (poemata),

Gell. 17, 10, 6.— Absol.:

quod magnificum referente alio fuisset, ipso qui gesserat recensente vanescit,

Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 15.

sēmis, issis (in Vitr., Front., and Pall. indecl., e.g. duo semis pedes, Pall. Febr. 9, 10:

duobus semis pedibus,

id. Jan. 10, 3; 13, 7:

diametros octo semis,

Vitr. 4, 1:

passuum milium et semis,

Front. Aquaed. 7; cf.:

habere duos et semis cubitos,

Vulg. Exod. 25, 10 al.), m. [cf. semi-; Gr. hêmi-, hêmisu], a half, half-unity, a semi-unit (v. as, I.).

In gen. (very rare for the usual dimidium):

sex domini semissem Africae possidebant,

Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 35:

patrimonii,

Dig. 36, 1, 78, § 7:

e libertorum defunctorum bonis,

Suet. Ner. 32:

cum alter semissem, alter universa fratre excluso (sibi vindicaret),

Quint. 7, 1, 62:

panem semissem ponebat supra torum,

Petr. 64, 6.—

In partic. (freq. and class.).

As a coin,

Half an as, a semi -as, Varr. L. L. 5, § 171 Müll.; cf. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44:

lex frumentaria de semissibus et trientibus,

Auct. Her. 1, 12, 21; Cic. Sest. 25, 55; Liv. Epit. 60; Ascon. ap. Cic. Pis. 4, p. 9 Orell.; hence, non semissis homo, not worth a groat, i. e. good for nothing, worthless, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 a, 1:

quid fit! Semis,

Hor. A. P. 330.—

In the times of the later emperors, as a gold coin, a half aureus (containing 59.8 grains of gold, or the present value of 10 s. 6 3/4 d. sterling), Lampr. Alex. Sev. 39.—

As a rate of interest, one half per cent. a month, or, acc. to our mode of computation, six per cent. a year (cf.:

bes, triens, etc.): semissibus magna copia (pecuniae) est,

Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2:

usura multiplicata semissibus,

Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 56:

usura semissium,

Col. 3, 3, 9 sq.;

for which also, reversely: semisses usurarum,

id. 3, 3, 9;

and in apposition: semisses usuras promisit,

Dig. 22, 1, 13; 22, 45, 134; 46, 3, 102 fin. —

As a measure of dimension.

Half a juger of land:

bina jugera et semisses agri assignati,

Liv. 6, 16 fin.; cf. Col. 5, 1, 11; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178.—

A half-foot, half a foot:

interesse sesquipedes inter bina semina in latitudinem, in longitudinem semisses,

Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 160:

campestris locus alte duos pedes et semissem infodiendus est,

Col. 3, 13, 8; Vitr. 4, 1; Front. Aquaed. 7; Pall. Jan. 10, 2; 10, 4; 13, 7; id. Febr. 9, 10 et saep.; Veg. 5, 40, 3; 3, 11, 4.—

Half a cubit:

cubitum ac semissem,

Vulg. Exod. 25, 17.—

Among mathematicians, the number three, Vitr. 3, 1, 6; cf. as fin.