(adverb) : pondo, abl. from pondus
* By weight, in weight.
* In gen.: neque piscium ullam unciam hodie pondo cepi,an ounce weight,Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8: ut exercitus coronam auream dictatori libram pondo decreverit,a pound in weight, weighing a pound,Liv. 3, 29; 4, 20: vettonicae tusae pondo libra,Plin. 26, 7, 19, § 33: pretium in pondo libras denarii duo,id. 33, 12, 56, § 158: styracis, resinae terebinthinae pondo sextantes,Cels. 5, 25, 16: sextarium aquae cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt,Col. 12, 12: argenti in convivio plus pondo quam libras centum inferre,Gell. 2, 24, 2.
* In partic., with numerals, as the usual measure of weight, as subst. indecl., pounds (sc. libra; freq. and class.): COMPEDIBVS QVINDECIM PONDO ... VINCITO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: quot pondo te censes esse nudum?Plaut. As. 2, 2, 33: auri quinque pondo abstulit,Cic. Clu. 64, 179: argenti pondo viginti millia,Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 51; 11, 42, 97, § 241: fulmen aureum quinquaginta pondo auri,Liv. 22, 1, 17.—Gen.: rettuli auri pondo mille octingentūm septuaginta, Varr. ap. Non. 149, 19: corona aurea pondo ducentūm,id. ib. 163, 33.

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