(verb) : taxo, āvi, ātum, 1, tago, tango
* To touch sharply, to feel, handle (post-Aug.; but cf. taxatio; syn.: tango, tracto).
* Lit. (very rare): taxare pressius crebriusque est quam tangere, unde procul dubio id inclinatum est,Gell. 2, 6, 5; cf. Macr. S. 6, 7; Fest. pp. 356 and 357 Müll.
* Trop.
* To twit, censure, reproach, charge, or tax with a fault, etc.: Cassius Parmensis quādam epistolā sic taxat Augustum: Materna tibi farina, etc.,Suet. Aug. 4: divortium suum cum uxore,id. Dom. 10: in piris taxatur superbia cognomine, i. e. they are called superba, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 53.
* To rate, value, appraise, estimate, determine the worth of a thing (qs. by feeling of or handling it; cf. aestimo, to judge of the value, etc.): chrysocolla aspera taxatur in libras denariis septem,Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 90: talentum Attieum denariis sex millibus taxat Varro,id. 35, 11, 40, § 136: senatorum cen sum ampliavit ac pro octingentorum milium summa duodecies HS. taxavit, Suet. Aug. 41; taxato prius modo summae,id. Calig. 38 et saep.
* To judge of, estimate, compute, reckon, etc., Plin. 6, 33, 38, § 207; cf.: totum sinum quatridui navigatione in longitudinem taxavit,id. 6, 28, 33, § 163: modii duo anulorum Carthaginem missi, dignitasque equestris taxata mensura,Flor. 2, 6, 18: timorem tuum taxa,Sen. Ep. 24, 2; cf.: tanti quodque malum est, quanti illud taxavimus,id. Cons. ad Marc. 19, 1: uni sapienti notum est, quanti res quaeque taxanda sit,id. Ep. 81, 7: taxata stipendio hiberna,Flor. 1, 12, 8: scelera taxantur modo majore,more severely punished,Sen. Herc. Fur. 746.