(verb) : rĕ-pendo, di, sum, 3
* To weigh back (syn. compenso).
* Lit. (rare): aequaque formosae pensa rependis erae,you weigh back, return by weight, the wool weighed out,Ov. H. 9, 78: pensa,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 41. Ravenna ternos (asparagos) libris rependit,i. e. produces them three to the pound,Plin. 19, 4, 4, § 54.
* Transf., to weigh in return, to pay with the same weight, purchase a thing with its weight in money.
* Lit.: cui (Septumuleio) pro C. Gracchi capite erat aurum repensum, * Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 269: cum Septumuleius Gai Gracchi auro rependendum caput abscisum ad Opimium tulerit, etc.,Plin. 33, 3, 14, § 48; Val. Max. 9, 4, 3: Aethiopico (magneti) laus summa datur, pondusque argento rependitur,Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 129: (balsamum) duplo rependebatur argento,id. 12, 25, 54, § 117: auro repensus Miles, ransomed (syn. redemptus), Hor. C. 3, 5, 25.
* Trop.
* To pay in kind, pay back, repay, requite, recompense, return, reward, in a good and bad sense (poet. and in postAug. prose): hac vitam servatae dote rependis?Ov. M. 5, 15; cf.: gratiam facto,id. ib. 2, 694: gratiam,Phaedr. 2, prol. 12: magna,Verg. A. 2, 161: fatis contraria fata,to balance,id. ib. 1, 239: pretium vitae,Prop. 4 (5), 11, 100. vices,id. 4 (5), 4, 58: pro officiis pretium,Ov. Am. 2, 8, 21: pia vota,Stat. S. 3, 3, 155: decus suum cuique (posteritas),Tac. A. 4, 35: exemplum contra singulos utilitate publicā,id. ib. 14, 44 fin.: ingenio formae damna,to counterbalance, compensate,Ov. H. 15, 32; cf.: rependere et compensare leve damnum delibatae honestatis majore aliā honestate,Gell. 1, 3, 23: incolumitatem turpitudine,to pay for, purchase,Plin. Pan. 44, 5; cf.: honorem servitute, donis, Col. praef. § 10: culpam hanc magno terrore,Val. Fl. 6, 744: regis pacta magno luctu,id. 6, 4: moestam noctem (with ulcisci socios),Stat. Th. 8, 666.— *
* To weigh in the mind, to meditate upon, ponder, consider: qui facta rependens, Consilio punire potest,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 228.