pondero

pondĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to weigh a thing (syn. examino).

I.

Lit.:

granum,

Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66:

semper amatorum ponderat illa sinus,

Prop. 2, 13 (3, 8), 12:

pugnos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 156:

in unum omnia ponderata confunduntur,

Scrib. Comp. 106.—

II.

Trop., to weigh in the mind, to ponder, consider, reflect upon (class.):

imprimis, quo quisque animo fecerit, ponderandum est,

Cic. Off. 1, 15, 49:

momento suo unamquamque rem ponderandam,

id. Font. 6, 21:

verborum delectum aurium judicio,

id. de Or. 3, 37, 150:

omnia voluptatibus et doloribus,

id. Leg. 1, 13, 39:

quid quisque admiserit non ex crimine, sed ex moribus ejus... est ponderandum,

id. Sull. 25, 69:

non ex libidine aut levitate testium causas honestorum hominum ponderari,

id. ib. 28, 89:

non esse fidem ex fortunā ponderandam,

id. Part. 34, 117:

causas non ratione, sed verbis,

id. Caecil. 21, 61:

consilia eventis,

id. Rab. Post. 1, 1:

dum inventa ponderant et dimetiuntur,

Quint. 8 prooem. § 27.—Hence,

A.

pon-dĕrans, antis, P. a., in a neuter sense, weighing, weighty, heavy (post-class.):

affectu ponderantiore,

Sid. Ep. 8, 6 med. dub. (al. ponderatiore).—

B.

pondĕrātus, a, um, P. a., weighed, pondered, well considered:

ponderatiora beneficia,

Nep. Fragm. 2 (v. also under ponderans).—Hence, adv.: pondĕrātē, with due consideration (late Lat.), Hier. in Psa. 36; pondĕrātim, Cassiod. Var. 2, 40.