remetior

rĕ-mētĭor, mensus, 4, v. dep. a., to measure or mete again, measure or mete back ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I.

Lit.:

iter retro remensumst,

Lucr. 2, 516:

si modo rite memor servata remetior astra,

Verg. A. 5, 25: frumentum pecuniā remetiri, to measure back with money, i. e. to pay for with an equal measure of money, Quint. Decl. 12, 19 fin. —In pass. sense:

in quā mensurā mensi fueritis, remetietur,

Vulg. Matt. 7, 2; id. Marc. 4, 24.—

B.

Transf.

1.

To measure back, i. e. to go, pass, or travel over again:

iter,

Stat. Th. 3, 324:

stadia,

Plin. 2, 71, 73, § 181.— In pass. sense:

pelagoque remenso, Improvisi aderunt,

Verg. A. 2, 181:

remenso mari,

id. ib. 3, 143.—

2.

In gen., to void or discharge back again:

ille fide summā testae sua vina remensus, Reddidit oenophori pondera plena sui,

Mart. 6, 89, 5:

vinum omne vomitu,

Sen. Ep. 95, 21; cf. id. Prov. 3, 13.—

II.

Trop., to go over in one's mind; to think over, reflect upon; to tell again, repeat:

totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior,

Sen. Ira, 3, 36:

fabulam,

App. M. 1, p. 104, 7; 2, p. 123, 35.—

2.

(Acc. to I. B. 1.) To measure or pass over again: transmissum discrimen convalescendo remetiri, to remeasure, in recovering, the danger surmounted (i. e. to be continually advancing in recovery ), Plin. Ep. 8, 11, 2.