libripens

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

lībrĭpens, pendis, m. [libra-pendo].

I One who weighed or counted out the pay to soldiers, a paymaster , Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43: impubes libripens esse non potest, Ael. ap. Prisc. 892 P.—

II One who held the balance, as if to weigh out money, at nominal sales : adhibitis non minus quam V. testibus civibus Romanis puberibus, item libripende, Gai. Inst. 1, § 113; Ulp. Fragm. 19, 3; cf. Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43.