A sauing or sparing: an aduauntage. A compendious or short forme: an abridgement or short way. Quæstus & compendium. Cic. Gaine and aduauntage. Compendium operæ. Plin. Sine damno serere, compendium operæ est. Is the sauing of so much labout. Pampinari eam non est moris: & hoc compendium operæ est. Plin. And that is so much labour saued: or that is the shorter way. Hoc egi, compendium temporis sequens. Colum. For spa. ring of time: or endeuouring to saue time. Syllabis nullum compendium est. Quint. There is no short way to teach the syilables. Timidæ compendia vitæ Stat. The shorinesse of life. Addere vel ponere aliquid ad compendium. Plaut. To abridge: to nike short: to vtter compendiously. Conferre verba ad compendium. Idem. Pla. To speake compendiously. Ductus compendio iter deserit. Quint. Brought by a shorter way. Compendium dictis facere. Plaut. To abridge his wordes: to vtter in fewe wordes. Compendio verba multa iam faciam tibi. Plaut. I will tell thee many things shortly. Compendium errationis facere. Plaut. Not to goe so fatre about. Compendium pultandi facere. To cease knocking. Breuia docendi compendia monstrare. Quintil. To shewe hriefe methodes. Esse compendio pro esse lucro. Africanus. To be profitable or gainefull. Compendij facere. Auson. To be short in speaking.

I. To shorten, abridge: sermonem, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 9; 4, 1.—

II. Compendiare alicui, lit., to shorten the way of life for one; hence, to kill him, Aug. Quaest. in Hept. 7 fin.

I. Prop.: ego hodie compendi feci binos panes in dies, have saved two loaves, Plaut. Pers. 4, 3, 2; cf. id. Truc. 2, 4, 26: aliquem mercibus suppeditandis cum quaestu compendioque dimittere, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, 6; 2, 3, 46, 109: turpe compendium effugere, id. Fl. 3, 7: se negat facturum compendii sui causā quod non liceat, id. Off. 3, 15, 63: homines ad turpe compendium commovere, Auct. Her. 4, 40, 52: servire privato compendio suo, Caes. B. C. 3, 32; id. B. G. 7, 43; Liv. 8, 36, 10; Plin. 21, 12, 41, 70; Suet. Tib. 48: compendia repetere ignotis terris, Tib. 1, 3, 39 al.: ligni, Plin. 23, 7, 64, 127; cf. operae, id. 17, 23, 35, 214; 18, 20, 49, 181: viae, id. 5, 5, 5, 38.—

B. Esp.,

1. Shortness of way, a short way ( = compendiaria), Quint. 4, 2, 46; Tac. A. 12, 28; Flor. 3, 3, 7; Just. 2, 10 fin.; cf. montis, a short cut across the mountain, Ov. M. 3, 234: maris, Tac. A. 2, 55: fugae, Sil. 12, 533; cf. Plin. Pan. 95, 5; Gell. praef. 12.—

2. In the phrases,

a. Facere compendium, to make a profit, gain.

(a). In gen.: compendium edepol haud aetati optabile Fecisti, quom istanc nactu's impudentiam, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 51.—

(b). More freq. to make a saving, i. e. be sparing of a thing: compendium ego te facere pultandi volo, to save your knocking, i. e. to cease therefrom, id. Ps. 2, 2, 11: errationis, id. Rud. 1, 2, 90: praeconis, id. Stich. 1, 3, 38.—

b. Aliquid ponere ad compendium. to save, spare something, i. e. not to say it, Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 3; 3, 1, 5; cf.: coaddito ad compendium, id. ib. v. 4.—

II. A sparing, saving in any thing done, i. e. a shortening, abbreviating: quam potes, tam verba confer maxume ad compendium, i. e. be concise, brief, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 184.—So of discourse, etc. (ante-class.): facere or fieri compendi, to shorten, abridge (the discourse), or to be shortened, abridged: lamentas fletus facere conpendi licet, Pac. ap. Non. p. 132, 29 (Trag. Rel. v. 175 Rib.): compendi verba multa jam faciam tibi, will be very brief with you, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 7; id. Most. 1, 1, 57; id. Ps. 4, 7, 42: verbis velitationem fieri compendi volo, in few words, briefly, id. As. 2, 2, 41; cf.: sed jam fieri dictis compendium volo, id. Capt. 5, 2, 12: in ipsis statim elementis etiam brevia docendi monstrare compendia, Quint. 1, 1, 24; cf. id. 1, 1, 30; and: compendio morari, i. e. only a short time, id. 1, 4, 22.