metor

mētor, ātus, 1, v. dep. [meta], to measure, mete; to measure off, mark out (not in Cic.).

I.

In gen.:

stadium Hercules pedibus suis metatus est,

Gell. 1, 1, 2:

caelum,

Ov. F. 1, 309:

Indiam,

Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57. — Poet., to traverse, pass through:

nunc nemoris alti densa metatur loca,

Sen. Hippol. 505:

agros,

Sil. 6, 58.—

II.

In partic.

1.

Act., to measure out, mark, or lay out: castra metati signa statuunt, Cael. ap. Non. 137, 18: castra, * Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3:

cum ortu solis castra metabatur,

measured out the ground for a camp, encamped, pitched his camp, Sall. J. 106, 5:

agrum,

Liv. 21, 25:

agros,

Verg. G. 2, 274:

eam (i. e. Alexandriam),

Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62:

regiones (for a temple),

Liv. 1, 10, 6:

castra,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 27.—

2.

Neutr., to encamp, pitch one's tent:

metarique sub ipso templo... jussit,

Liv. 44, 7, 2:

post tabernaculum,

Vulg. Num. 3, 23.—Hence, transf., to erect, pitch, set up:

tabernacula ciliciis,

Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143.— Act. collat. form, mēto, āre, to measure, measure out, etc.:

loca,

Verg. Cul. 172.— Pass.:

locus metatur,

Sen. Thyest. 462.—Often in part. perf.:

castris eo loco metatis,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 15; so,

castra,

Liv. 44, 37, 1:

porticus,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 15:

agellus,

id. S. 2, 2, 114:

prope Beroeam vallo metato,

Amm. 31, 9, 1.