Expendo, expendis, expendi, expensum, expendere. Plaut.To weigh: to ponder: to conslder: to examine straightly: to spende money: to pay.Exponere aurum auro. Plautus. To paye golde for golde by waight.Hune hominem decet auro expendi.Plaut.This man is to bee boughte with golde: o hee is woorth his waight of golde.Expendere atque æstimare pecunia. Cice. To weigh and value with money. Pœnas expendere alicui.Cic.To be punished of one.Expendere pœnas scelerum. Virgil. To bee punished for hys naughtie actes.Pœnas capite expendere.Tacit.To be punished by death. Expendere scelus. Vir. To sustaine punishment of a wicked acte.Expenderet supplicia. Virg Idem. Expendere.Cic.To examine, weigh, or consider.Expendere & seligere.Cic.To examine and choose.Iudicio expendere.Cic.To weigh with, &c.Arte aliqua quædam expendere.Cic.Omnes expendere casus. Virgil. To consider diligently all chaunces.Meritis expendere causam.Ouid.To weigh the cause wyth his desertes.Dignumpretium expendere. Sil. To pay.Expendant se ipsi.Cic.Let them consider themselues diligently.Expendere testem diligenter.Cic.To consider or examine.Viros spectare atque expendere bello. Sil. Expendere & æstimare voloptates.Cic.To weigh and value the estimation of pleasures.
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ex-pendo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to weigh out, weigh.I.Lit.A. In gen. (very rare): aliquem, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 34: ut jam expendantur, non numerentur pecuniae, Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97: bacam, nucem, Cels. 5, 19, 12.—With abl. of that against which any thing is weighed: hunc hominem decet auro expendi, i. e.
, Prop. 2, 4, 6 (16).—B. In partic., to weigh out money in payment, to pay out, pay; to lay out, expend (class.; syn.: pendo, impendo, pondero, solvo, luo): ante pedes praetoris in foro expensum est auri pondo centum, Cic. Fl. 28, 68: nummos nominibus certis, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 105: usuras gravissimas, Dig. 19, 1, 47: viginti milia talenta in hos sumptus, Just. 12, 11.—With abl.: aurum auro expendetur, argentum argento exaequabitur, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 43. —2. In the part. perf. as a neutr. subst.: expensum, i, money paid, a payment: bene igitur ratio accepti atque expensi inter nos convenit,
of debt and credit
, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 146; id. Truc. 1, 1, 54: in codicem expensum et receptum referre, Cic. Rosc. Com. 3: probari debere pecuniam datam consuetis modis, expensi latione, mensae rationibus, chirographi exhibitione, etc., Gell. 14, 2, 7.—Esp. freq.: ferre alicui expensum or pecuniam expensam, to set down, enter, charge, reckon, account a sum as paid (opp. accipio): quod minus Dolabella Verri acceptum retulit quam Verres illi expensum tulerit ... quid proderat tibi te expensum illis non tulisse?Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, 100 and 102: haec pecunia necesse est aut data aut expensa lata aut stipulata sit, id. Rosc. Com. 5, 14: pecunias ferre (opp. acceptas referre), Auct. B. Alex. 56, 3: homines prope quadringentos produxisse dicitur, quibus sine fenore pecunias expensas tulisset, had set down, i. e. lent, Liv. 5, 20, 6.—Rarely transf., of other things: legio, quam expensam tulit C. Caesari Pompeius, i. e. transferred, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 4, 4; for which also: expenso ferre vestem supellectilis nomine, Dig. 33, 10, 19.II.Trop.A. (Acc. to I. A.) To weigh mentally, to ponder, estimate, consider, judge, decide (class.): equidem cum colligo argumenta causarum, non tam ea numerare soleo quam expendere, Cic. de Or. 2, 76 fin.; cf.: in dissensione civili ... expendendos cives non numerandos puto, id. Rep. 6, 1: omnia expendet ac seliget, id. Or. 15, 47: vos in privatis minimarum rerum judiciis testem diligenter expenditis, id. Fl. 5, 12: singula animo suo, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 34: haec arte aliqua, Cic. Brut. 50, 186; cf.: verba arte, Tac. A. 13, 3: omnes casus, Verg. A. 12, 21: belli consilia, Tac. H. 1, 87: causam meritis,
to decide
, Ov. M. 13, 150 et saep.: quae contemplantes expendere oportebit, quid quisque habeat sui, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 113: Hannibalem, Juv. 10, 147: quid conveniat nobis, id. 10, 347.—B. (Acc. to I. B. 1.) To pay a penalty, suffer a punishment (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): poenas Jovi expendisse (shortly after, in prose, poenas pendens), Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.: infanda per orbem Supplicia et scelerum poenas expendimus omnes, Verg. A. 11, 258: dignas poenas pro talibus ausis, Sil. 13, 698: poenas capite, Tac. A. 12, 19: dura supplicia, Sil. 6, 588.—Hence, to pay for, expiate: scelus, Verg. A. 2, 229: dignum pretium Poeno, Sil. 7, 713.—C. (Cf. I. B. 2.) Ipsam facilitati suae expensum ferre debere, i. e. have to ascribe to, Dig. 36, 4, 3: creditores suae negligentiae expensum ferre debeant, ib. 42, 8, 24.— expense, adv., largely, very much (late Lat.), Theod. Prisc. de Diaeta, 13.
expensa, ae, f. (sc. pecunia) [expendo], a disbursement, expense (post-class.): neque tempus neque finem expensarum habet, Dig. 27, 10, 1: non indecores aeraria lassant expensae, Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 145.