expendo

ex-pendo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to weigh out, weigh.

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen. (very rare):

aliquem,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 34:

ut jam expendantur, non numerentur pecuniae,

Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97:

bacam, nucem,

Cels. 5, 19, 12.—With abl. of that against which any thing is weighed:

hunc hominem decet auro expendi,

i. e. is worth his weight in gold, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 1.— Poet.:

ibat et expenso planta morata gradu,

measured, Prop. 2, 4, 6 (16).—

B.

In partic., to weigh out money in payment, to pay out, pay; to lay out, expend (class.;

syn.: pendo, impendo, pondero, solvo, luo): ante pedes praetoris in foro expensum est auri pondo centum,

Cic. Fl. 28, 68:

nummos nominibus certis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105:

usuras gravissimas,

Dig. 19, 1, 47:

viginti milia talenta in hos sumptus,

Just. 12, 11.—With abl.:

aurum auro expendetur, argentum argento exaequabitur,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 43. —

2.

In the part. perf. as a neutr. subst.: expensum, i, money paid, a payment:

bene igitur ratio accepti atque expensi inter nos convenit,

of debt and credit, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 146; id. Truc. 1, 1, 54:

in codicem expensum et receptum referre,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 3:

probari debere pecuniam datam consuetis modis, expensi latione, mensae rationibus, chirographi exhibitione, etc.,

Gell. 14, 2, 7.—Esp. freq.: ferre alicui expensum or pecuniam expensam, to set down, enter, charge, reckon, account a sum as paid (opp. accipio):

quod minus Dolabella Verri acceptum retulit quam Verres illi expensum tulerit... quid proderat tibi te expensum illis non tulisse?

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, §§

100 and 102: haec pecunia necesse est aut data aut expensa lata aut stipulata sit,

id. Rosc. Com. 5, 14: pecunias ferre (opp. acceptas referre), Auct. B. Alex. 56, 3: homines prope quadringentos produxisse dicitur, quibus sine fenore pecunias expensas tulisset, had set down, i. e. lent, Liv. 5, 20, 6.—Rarely transf., of other things: legio, quam expensam tulit C. Caesari Pompeius, i. e. transferred, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4; for which also: expenso ferre vestem supellectilis nomine, Dig. 33, 10, 19.

II.

Trop.

A.

(Acc. to I. A.) To weigh mentally, to ponder, estimate, consider, judge, decide (class.):

equidem cum colligo argumenta causarum, non tam ea numerare soleo quam expendere,

Cic. de Or. 2, 76 fin.; cf.:

in dissensione civili... expendendos cives non numerandos puto,

id. Rep. 6, 1:

omnia expendet ac seliget,

id. Or. 15, 47:

vos in privatis minimarum rerum judiciis testem diligenter expenditis,

id. Fl. 5, 12:

singula animo suo,

Ov. Am. 3, 5, 34:

haec arte aliqua,

Cic. Brut. 50, 186; cf.:

verba arte,

Tac. A. 13, 3:

omnes casus,

Verg. A. 12, 21:

belli consilia,

Tac. H. 1, 87:

causam meritis,

to decide, Ov. M. 13, 150 et saep.:

quae contemplantes expendere oportebit, quid quisque habeat sui,

Cic. Off. 1, 31, 113:

Hannibalem,

Juv. 10, 147:

quid conveniat nobis,

id. 10, 347.—

B.

(Acc. to I. B. 1.) To pay a penalty, suffer a punishment ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): poenas Jovi expendisse (shortly after, in prose, poenas pendens), Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.:

infanda per orbem Supplicia et scelerum poenas expendimus omnes,

Verg. A. 11, 258:

dignas poenas pro talibus ausis,

Sil. 13, 698:

poenas capite,

Tac. A. 12, 19:

dura supplicia,

Sil. 6, 588.—Hence, to pay for, expiate:

scelus,

Verg. A. 2, 229:

dignum pretium Poeno,

Sil. 7, 713.—

C.

(Cf. I. B. 2.) Ipsam facilitati suae expensum ferre debere, i. e. have to ascribe to, Dig. 36, 4, 3:

creditores suae negligentiae expensum ferre debeant,

ib. 42, 8, 24.—

* expense, adv., largely, very much (late Lat.), Theod. Prisc. de Diaeta, 13.