pondo, adv. [abl. from pondus],
I by weight , in weight.
A In gen.: neque piscium ullam unciam hodie pondo cepi, an ounce weight , Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8: ut exercitus coronam auream dictatori libram pondo decreverit, a pound in weight , weighing a pound , Liv. 3, 29; 4, 20: vettonicae tusae pondo libra, Plin. 26, 7, 19, § 33: pretium in pondo libras denarii duo, id. 33, 12, 56, § 158: styracis, resinae terebinthinae pondo sextantes, Cels. 5, 25, 16: sextarium aquae cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt, Col. 12, 12: argenti in convivio plus pondo quam libras centum inferre, Gell. 2, 24, 2.—
B In partic., with numerals, as the usual measure of weight, as subst. indecl. , pounds (sc. libra; freq. and class.): COMPEDIBVS QVINDECIM PONDO ... VINCITO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: quot pondo te censes esse nudum? Plaut. As. 2, 2, 33: auri quinque pondo abstulit, Cic. Clu. 64, 179: argenti pondo viginti millia, Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 51; 11, 42, 97, § 241: fulmen aureum quinquaginta pondo auri, Liv. 22, 1, 17.— Gen. : rettuli auri pondo mille octingentūm septuaginta, Varr. ap. Non. 149, 19: corona aurea pondo ducentūm, id. ib. 163, 33.