meto

1.

mēto (no perf. ), ātum, 1, v. a., to measure; v. metor fin.

2.

mĕto, messŭi (Cato ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 319), messum, 3, v. a. and n. [root ma-; Gr. amaô, mow, reap; amê, sickle; cf. messis, messor], to reap, mow, crop; of the vintage, to gather, gather in, collect; and poet. of the sucking of honey from flowers (class.).

I.

Lit.:

cum est matura seges, metendum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3:

sunt autem metendi genera complura,

Col. 2, 21, 2:

in metendo occupatos,

Caes. B. G. 4, 32:

pabula falce,

to cut, cut down, Ov. H. 6, 84:

farra,

id. F 2, 519:

arva,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30.—Prov.:

ut sementem feceris, ita et metes,

as you sow, so shall you reap, Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 261; cf.:

ventum seminabunt et turbinem metent,

Vulg. Os. 8, 7:

qui seminant iniquitatem metet mala,

id. Prov. 22, 8:

mihi istic nec seritur, nec metitur,

i. e. I have no share in it, it does not concern me, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 80:

sibi quisque ruri metit,

every one looks out for himself, id. Most. 3, 2, 112: Tibi aras, tibi occas, tibi seris;

tibi item metes,

id. Merc. prol. 71.—Of the vintage, to gather, etc.:

postremus metito,

Verg. G. 2, 410; so,

vindemiam,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 185.—Of bees: purpureosque metunt flores, reap the flowers, i. e. gather the pollen, Verg. G. 4, 54.—

II.

Transf.

A.

In gen., to cut off, pluck off, crop ( poet. ):

virgā lilia summa metit,

Ov. F. 2, 706:

barbam forfice,

Mart. 7, 95, 12:

capillos,

id. 10, 83, 11:

olus,

to cut, gather, Calp. Ecl. 2, 74:

et ferus in silvā farra metebat aper,

laid waste, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 40:

ille metit barbam,

Juv. 3, 186. —

2.

In partic., in battle, to mow down, cut down:

proxima quaeque metit gladio,

Verg. A. 10, 513:

primosque et extremos metendo Stravit humum,

Hor. C. 4, 14, 31 tum Vesulum ense metit rapido, Sil. 10, 147:

agmina plura metam,

Val. Fl. 3, 670.—So of death:

metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 178: vita omnibus metenda, ut fruges (transl. of the Greek of Euripid.: anankaiôs d echei bion therizein), Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 25, 59.—

B.

To inhabit a region ( poet. ):

qui Batulum Nucrasque metunt,

Sil. 8, 566 (cf. a like poetic transfer of the verbs colere, arare, serere, and bibere).

3.

Mĕto, ōnis, v Meton.