commetior

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

com-mētĭor (con-m-), mensus, 4, v. dep.,

I to measure (very rare): omnes porticus, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 8: agros, Col. 5, 1, 2: siderum ambitus inter se numero, Cic. Univ. 9.—*

II Trop., to measure with or by something , to proportion : negotium cum tempore, Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39.

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