(v. a.P. a.P. a.adv.) : pendo, pĕpendi, pensum, 3 (pendissent, for pependissent, Liv. 45, 26 fin.:
* Penderit for pependerit,Paul. Nol. Carm. 14, 122), v. a. and n. etym. dub.; cf. root σφαδ-, σφενδόνη, a sling; Lat. funda.—Lit., to cause to hang down, to suspend; esp. of scales in weighing.
* Act., to weigh, weigh out.
* Lit. (very rare: syn. penso, expendo): unumquodque verbum staterā aurariā pendere, Varr. ap. Non. 455, 21: da pensam lanam, Titin. ap. Non. 369, 21; Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 39, read repensum: aere gravi cum uterentur Romani, penso eo, non numerato debitum solvebant, Fest. s. v. pendere, p. 208 Müll.: pensas examinat herbas,Ov. M. 14, 270.
* Neutr., to weigh (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): tantundem pendere par est,Lucr. 1, 361: talentum ne minus pondo octoginta Romanis ponderibus pendat,Liv. 38, 38, 13; Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 44; id. 30, 48 fin., § 93; id. 18, 7, 12, § 66; id. 31, 6, 31, § 58 (in Sen. Ep. 66, 30, read pendent).—Hence, pensus, a, um, P. a., lit. weighed; hence, trop., esteemed, valued, prized, dear (as P. a. not in Cic. or Caes.): utra condicio pensior, Virginemne an viduam habere?Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 61: ut nihil quicquam esset carius pensiusque nobis quam nosmetipsi, Taurus ap. Gell. 12, 5, 7.—Esp., as subst.: pensum, i, n., something weighed.
* Trop.
* To weigh mentally, to ponder, consider, deliberate upon, decide (class.; syn.: pensito, trutinor): vos eam (rem) suo, non nominis pondere penditote,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1: in philosophiā res spectatur, non verba penduntur,id. Or. 16, 51: causam ex veritate,id. Quint. 1, 5: rem levi conjecturā,id. Rosc. Am. 22, 62.
* To value, esteem, regard a thing; with gen. of the value (mostly ante-class. and poet.): neque cum me magni pendere visum'st,Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 12: aliquem,Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 25: quem tu vidisse beatus Non magni pendis,Hor. S. 2, 4, 93: nec jam religio divum neque numina magni Pendebantur,Lucr. 6, 1277: unice unum plurimi pendit,Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 29: te volturium vocant: Hostisne an civis comedis, parvi pendere,id. Trin. 1, 2, 64 sq.: nequam hominis ego parvi pendo gratiam,lightly esteem,id. Bacch. 3, 6, 29; so, parvi,Ter. And. 3, 2, 46; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 37; id. Hec. 3, 5, 63: minoris pendo tergum illorum, quam meum,care less for,Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 29: aliquem minoris,id. ib. 1, 3, 58: aliquem nihili,id. ib. 1, 3, 88: nihili,id. Men. 5, 7, 4; id. Trin. 3, 1, 6; Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 6; cf.: non flocci pendere,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 21: sese experturum, quanti sese penderem,Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 44: tu illum numquam ostendisti quanti penderes,Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 103.
* (Acc. to A. 2.) To pay, render (poet.): dignas pendere grates,Stat. Th. 11, 223.
* Weight, consideration, scruple, importance, only in gen. sing.: nihil pensi habere aliquid, to lay no weight or stress upon a thing, to attach no value to, be indifferent to, care nothing about: sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere, ... nihil pensi neque moderati habere,Sall. C. 12, 2: nihil pensi neque sancti habere,id. J. 41, 9: neque id quibus modis assequeretur, quicquam pensi habebat,id. C. 5, 6: prorsus neque dicere, neque facere quicquam pensi habebat,id. ib. 23, 2: nihil pensi habuit, quin, etc.,Suet. Dom. 12; id. Ner. 34: ut neque fas neque fidem pensi haberet,Tac. A. 13, 15: aliquid ratum pensumque habere, Att. Capitol. ap. Gell. 13, 12, 2. —So, non pensi ducere (very rare), Val. Max. 2, 9, 3.—Also, non adest or est alicui pensi: nec mihi adest tantillum pensi jam, quos capiam calceos, I don't care in the least, am perfectly indifferent, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 52: sed illis nec quid dicerent, nec quid facerent, quicquam umquam pensi fuisse,they never cared at all,Liv. 34, 49: quibus si quicquam pensi umquam fuisset, non ea consilia de republicā habuissent,if they had ever had regard for any considerations,Sall. C. 52, 34.
* Prop., the wool weighed out to a slave to spin in a day; hence, a day's work in spinning, and, in gen., spinning, a spinner's task.
* Lit. (mostly ante-class. and poet.): pensum facere,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 63; id. Men. 5, 2, 45: nocturna carpentes pensa puellae,Verg. G. 1, 391: carmine quo captae dum fusis mollia pensa Devolvunt, etc.,id. ib. 4, 348: famulasque ad lumina longo Exercet penso,id. A. 8, 412; Prop. 3, 15, (4, 14), 15: castrensia,i. e. for military garments,id. 4 (5), 3, 33: pensa manu ducunt,Juv. 12, 65: lanificam revocas ad sua pensa manum,Ov. Am. 1, 13, 24; id. H. 3, 75; Just. 1, 3, 2.—Poet., a thread spun by the Fates: durae peragunt pensa sorores,Sen. Herc. Fur. 181: jamque in fine dies et inexorabile pensum Deficit,Stat. S. 3, 3, 172: mortale resolvere, to unbind his mortal thread, i. e. to make him immortal, Calp. Ecl. 4, 137.
* Trop., a charge, duty, office (so in Cic.; cf.: ministerium, munus, officium): pensum meum lepide accurabo,Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 33; cf.: meum confeci,id. Pers. 2, 4, 1: absolvere,to perform one's duty,Varr. R. R. 2, 2: me ad meum munus pensumque revocabo,Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 109: nominis familiaeque,Liv. 4, 52: operis sui peragere,Col. 3, 10, 7.—Hence, adv.: pensē, carefully, considerately (post-class.): pensius, Flav. ap. Symm. Ep. 2, 34.

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