(verb) : mētor, ātus, 1, meta
* To measure, mete; to measure off, mark out (not in Cic.).
* In gen.: stadium Hercules pedibus suis metatus est,Gell. 1, 1, 2: caelum,Ov. F. 1, 309: Indiam,Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57. —Poet., to traverse, pass through: nunc nemoris alti densa metatur loca,Sen. Hippol. 505: agros,Sil. 6, 58.
* In partic.
* Act., to measure out, mark, or lay out: castra metati signa statuunt, Cael. ap. Non. 137, 18: castra, * Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3: cum ortu solis castra metabatur,measured out the ground for a camp, encamped, pitched his camp,Sall. J. 106, 5: agrum,Liv. 21, 25: agros,Verg. G. 2, 274: eam (i. e. Alexandriam),Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62: regiones (for a temple),Liv. 1, 10, 6: castra,Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 27.
* Neutr., to encamp, pitch one's tent: metarique sub ipso templo ... jussit,Liv. 44, 7, 2: post tabernaculum,Vulg. Num. 3, 23.—Hence, transf., to erect, pitch, set up: tabernacula ciliciis,Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143.—Act. collat. form, mēto, āre, to measure, measure out, etc.: loca,Verg. Cul. 172.—Pass.: locus metatur,Sen. Thyest. 462.—Often in part. perf.: castris eo loco metatis,Hirt. B. G. 8, 15; so, castra,Liv. 44, 37, 1: porticus,Hor. C. 2, 15, 15: agellus,id. S. 2, 2, 114: prope Beroeam vallo metato,Amm. 31, 9, 1.

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