(v. a.adv.) : ex-pendo, di, sum, 3, v. a.
* To weigh out, weigh.
* Lit.
* In gen. (very rare): aliquem,Plaut. As. 2, 2, 34: ut jam expendantur, non numerentur pecuniae,Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97: bacam, nucem,Cels. 5, 19, 12.—With abl. of that against which any thing is weighed: hunc hominem decet auro expendi,i. e. is worth his weight in gold,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 1.—Poet.: ibat et expenso planta morata gradu,measured,Prop. 2, 4, 6 (16).
* Trop.
* In the part. perf. as a neutr. subst.: expensum, i, money paid, a payment: bene igitur ratio accepti atque expensi inter nos convenit,of debt and credit,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 146; id. Truc. 1, 1, 54: in codicem expensum et receptum referre,Cic. Rosc. Com. 3: probari debere pecuniam datam consuetis modis, expensi latione, mensae rationibus, chirographi exhibitione, etc.,Gell. 14, 2, 7.—Esp. freq.: ferre alicui expensum or pecuniam expensam, to set down, enter, charge, reckon, account a sum as paid (opp. accipio): quod minus Dolabella Verri acceptum retulit quam Verres illi expensum tulerit ... quid proderat tibi te expensum illis non tulisse?Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, §§ 100 and 102: haec pecunia necesse est aut data aut expensa lata aut stipulata sit,id. Rosc. Com. 5, 14: pecunias ferre (opp. acceptas referre), Auct. B. Alex. 56, 3: homines prope quadringentos produxisse dicitur, quibus sine fenore pecunias expensas tulisset, had set down, i. e. lent, Liv. 5, 20, 6.—Rarely transf., of other things: legio, quam expensam tulit C. Caesari Pompeius, i. e. transferred, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4; for which also: expenso ferre vestem supellectilis nomine, Dig. 33, 10, 19.
* (Acc. to I. A.) To weigh mentally, to ponder, estimate, consider, judge, decide (class.): equidem cum colligo argumenta causarum, non tam ea numerare soleo quam expendere,Cic. de Or. 2, 76 fin.; cf.: in dissensione civili ... expendendos cives non numerandos puto,id. Rep. 6, 1: omnia expendet ac seliget,id. Or. 15, 47: vos in privatis minimarum rerum judiciis testem diligenter expenditis,id. Fl. 5, 12: singula animo suo,Ov. Am. 3, 5, 34: haec arte aliqua,Cic. Brut. 50, 186; cf.: verba arte,Tac. A. 13, 3: omnes casus,Verg. A. 12, 21: belli consilia,Tac. H. 1, 87: causam meritis,to decide,Ov. M. 13, 150 et saep.: quae contemplantes expendere oportebit, quid quisque habeat sui,Cic. Off. 1, 31, 113: Hannibalem,Juv. 10, 147: quid conveniat nobis,id. 10, 347.
* (Acc. to I. B. 1.) To pay a penalty, suffer a punishment (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): poenas Jovi expendisse (shortly after, in prose, poenas pendens), Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.: infanda per orbem Supplicia et scelerum poenas expendimus omnes,Verg. A. 11, 258: dignas poenas pro talibus ausis,Sil. 13, 698: poenas capite,Tac. A. 12, 19: dura supplicia,Sil. 6, 588.—Hence, to pay for, expiate: scelus,Verg. A. 2, 229: dignum pretium Poeno,Sil. 7, 713.
* (Cf. I. B. 2.) Ipsam facilitati suae expensum ferre debere, i. e. have to ascribe to, Dig. 36, 4, 3: creditores suae negligentiae expensum ferre debeant,ib. 42, 8, 24.—* expense, adv., largely, very much (late Lat.), Theod. Prisc. de Diaeta, 13.

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