pondo

pondo, adv. [abl. from pondus], 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.