exaequatio

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

exaequātĭo, ōnis, f. [exaequo], an equalling. *

I Lit., a levelling : agrorum, Serv. Verg. G. 1, 95; concr., a level , a plane , Vitr. 5, 12, 4.—

II Trop., a levelling , an equality : hanc ipsam exaequationem non fero (cf., shortly before: aequato omnium cultu), Liv. 34, 4, 14.

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