per-mētĭor, mensus, 4
* V. dep. a., to measure through, measure out, measure (class.).
* Lit.: solis magnitudinem, quasi decempedā,Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 126.
* Transf., to travel through, traverse: (lupus femina) campos celeri passu permensa, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 18 (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.); so id. ap. Fest. p. 301 Müll. (Ann. v. 443 ib.): ad vos permensu'st viam,came over,Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49: Siciliae oras errabundus permetiens, Consol. ad Polyb. 36: classibus aequor,Verg. A. 3, 157: aëra,Lucr. 6, 1142: iter,Stat. S. 1, 2, 202: secula,to live through,Mart. 9, 30, 1.—Hence, part. perf.: per-mensus, a, um, in pass. signif., measured out: permensum et perlibratum opus,Col. 3, 13 fin.: permenso tempore lucis,Tib. 3, 3, 9; App. M. 8, p. 209, 40: gradatim permensis honoribus,id. ib. 10, p. 247, 25.

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