Aestimo, æstimas, pen. cor. æstimare. To esteeme: to value: to preise: also, to set by: to regard: to ponder, weye, or consider.Tribus denarijs æstimauit.Cicer.He preysed, or balued it at three pence.Qui pœnam suam honoribus summis esset æstimaturus.Quint.Which would esteeme or accompt his punishment to be the greatest honour that could be vnto him.Aestimare litem.Cicer.By his sentence to coudemne or appoint one to paye a certaine summe of money toward damages and costes of his aduersary.Astimare nomina alicui.Cicer.To valne titles of debt vnto one.Aestimare pecunia.Cic.To preise: to set the prise.Aestimare pretium rei.Cic.To set she prise or value.Aestimare carius. Planc. Cic.To set at a high prise.Aestimare flocci.Plaut.To set lighthy.Aestimare magni & magno.Cic.Greatly to esseeme.Nonnihilo æstimare.Cic.Somewhat to steeme.Aestimare tanti, quanti, tantidem, pluris & minoris.Cic.Expendere atque æftimare aliquid.Cic.Aestimare ac dispicere, contraria. Colum. Aestimare aliquem.Plaut. Bene de aliquo æstimare. Cic.To haue a good opinion of one.Aestimare aliquem ex artisicio.Cic.To esteeme one according to his arte or cunning.Aestimare aliquid ex veritate, vel ex opinione.Cic.To iudg according to truth, or according to our opinion.Aestimare vrbem aliquam è loco sublimi. Martial. To view or behold a citie, as he standeth in a high place.
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aestĭmo (arch. aestŭ-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from aes, with the termination -tumo, which also appears in autumo; cf.: legitumus, finitumus, maritumus; later, legitimus, finitimus, maritimus; compare the Goth. aistjan, to estimate]. I.To determine or estimate the extrinsic (money) value of a thing, to value, rate, appraise; constr. with gen. or abl. (v. of price, Zumpt. 444 and 456): domum emit prope dimidio carius quam aestimabat, Cic. Dom. 44: frumentum III denariis, id. Verr. 2, 3, 92: aliquid tenuissime, id. ib. 2, 4, 16: prata magno, id. Par. 6, 3: perfecit (Aratus) aestimandis possessionibus, ut, etc., id. Off. 2, 23, 82; hence, litem alicui or alicujus, to estimate the value of an object in question, and thus determine how much the convicted person shall pay, to estimate or assess the damages; cf. Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 13, 38, and Beier ad Cic. Oratt. Fragm. Exc. IV. p. 265; Cic. Verr. l. l.—II.Trop., to estimate the intrinsic (moral) worth of a thing, to weigh, value, hold, etc. (while existimare, as a consequence of aestimare, signifies to judge a thing in any way after estimating its value: ex pretio rei judicare; cf. Burm. ad Phaedr. 3, 4; Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 2, 17; Corte and Kritz ad Sall. C. 8, 2; Gronov. ad Liv. 4, 41; 34, 2; and aestimator).— Constr. (a). That which serves as a standard by which a thing is estimated with ex or the abl.: vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimant, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10: aliquem ex artificio comico, id. ib.: cum in Aquitaniam pervenisset, quae pars, ex tertiā parte Galliae est aestimanda, etc., i. e.
is to be reckoned as a third part
, Caes. B. G. 3, 20: amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo, Sall. C. 10, 5.—With simple abl.: virtutem annis, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 48: aliquid vitā, to measure a thing by life, i. e. to hold it as dear as life, Curt. 5, 5: nec Macedonas veteri famā, sed praesentibus viribus aestimandos, Just. 30, 4.—(b). The value attached to a thing in estimating it, in the gen. or abl. pretii (cf. I.); poet. also with acc. nihil: auctoritatem alicujus magni, Cic. Att. 7, 15: quod non minoris aestimamus quam quemlibet triumphum, Nep. Cat. 1: aliquid unius assis, Cat. 5, 2: aliquid permagno, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 7, 13: non magno, id. Fin. 3, 3, 11; so id. Tusc. 3, 4, 8: non nihilo aestimandum, id. Fin. 4, 23, 62: magno te aestimaturum, Liv. 40, 55: magno aestimantibus se, id. 40, 41. And with definite numerals which give the price-current for which a thing may be had; cf. Zumpt. 456; Sall. Fragm. p. 974 Corte: denis in diem assibus animam et corpus aestimari, Tac. A. 1, 17: emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 15.—(g). Among the histt. with a rel. clause.: aestimantibus, quanta futuri spe tam magna tacuisset, Tac. Agr. 18 fin.: quantopere dilectus sit, facile est aestimare, Suet. Aug. 57 (but in Sall. J. 31, 19, the correct read. is existumabitis, Dietsch).