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compenso
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Lewis Short
(v. a.adv.) : com-penso (conp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
* To poise, weigh several things with one another; hence, in the lang. of business, to equalize one thing with another by weighing, to balance with one another, to make good, compensate, balance against, lit. and trop. (class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in Cic.); constr. aliquid cum aliquā re, aliquā re, or absol.
* In gen.
* Cum aliquā re: nonne compensabit cum uno versiculo tot mea volumina laudum suarum,Cic. Pis. 30, 75: laetitiam cum doloribus,id. Fin. 2, 30, 97: bona cum vitiis,Hor. S. 1, 3, 70.
* In post-Aug. poets, of a way, to shorten, spare, save: longum iter,Sen. Hippol. 83 (cf. pensare iter, Luc. 9, 685).—Hence, compensātō, adv., with compensation or reward, Tert. Pall. 2 (al. leg. compensati).
* To poise, weigh several things with one another; hence, in the lang. of business, to equalize one thing with another by weighing, to balance with one another, to make good, compensate, balance against, lit. and trop. (class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in Cic.); constr. aliquid cum aliquā re, aliquā re, or absol.
* In gen.
* Cum aliquā re: nonne compensabit cum uno versiculo tot mea volumina laudum suarum,Cic. Pis. 30, 75: laetitiam cum doloribus,id. Fin. 2, 30, 97: bona cum vitiis,Hor. S. 1, 3, 70.
* In post-Aug. poets, of a way, to shorten, spare, save: longum iter,Sen. Hippol. 83 (cf. pensare iter, Luc. 9, 685).—Hence, compensātō, adv., with compensation or reward, Tert. Pall. 2 (al. leg. compensati).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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