Appendo, appendis, appendi, appensum, appéndere. Plin. To hange by: to way: to ponder.Appendere aurum, vel pecuniam.Cic.To way, or count out.Annumerare & appendere.Cic.Appendere mutno pro Date mutuo. Plin. To lend. Appendere, per metaphoram translatum ad incorporeaivt, Appendere verba, Cic.To ponder or way.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ap-pendo (adp-, Jan), endi, ensum, 3 (kindr, with appendeo, ēre, Apic. 8, 7 fin.), v. a.I.To hang something upon something, to suspend on (eccl. Lat.): (Deus) appendit terram super nihilum,
hangeth the earth on nothing
, Vulg. Job, 26, 7.—II. Commonly to weigh something to one, to weigh (cf. pendo) A.Lit.: si tibi optimā fide sua omnia concessit, adnumeravit, appendit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144: quodcumque trades, numera et appende, Vulg. Eccli. 42, 7: aurum alicui, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, 56: appendit pecuniam, Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: ut appendantur, non numerentur pecuniae, Cic. Phil. 2, 38: nondum omni auro appenso, Liv. 5, 49; so Col. 12, 3, 9: talentum auri appendebat, Vulg. Exod. 37, 24: appensum est argentum, ib. 1 Esdr 8, 33: qui cenis Caesaris sex milia numero murenarum mutua adpendit, Plin. 9, 55, 81, 171 Jan; Dig. 23, 3, 34.— B.Trop., to weigh, to consider: non verba me adnumerare lectori putavi oportere, sed tamquam appendere, to have regard not to their number, but to their weight or force, Cic. Opt. Gen. 5: appendit corda Dominus, Vulg. Prov. 21, 2.