A pounde, whereof be three sortes. Troiana vel public being 16. vunces: This all common occupiers doe dse in sa of things. Romana, Containing 12. ounces, which Apoth caries vse, and all Phisitions and auncient writetrs do speal of. The third is Marca, Octonaria, or Nummularia, contar ning but 8. ounces, by this monie is weyed. Libra Romana. In coyne is double out pounde, that is 4 shillings or there about. For Libra containeth 100. Dena rios, and euery Denarius is an olde groate sterling of eigl to an ounce. Vna libra farris. Horat. Implere libram, Vide INPLBO. Libra. Cic. A paire of ballances. In altera libræ lancæ ponere. Cic. Anceps libra. Pers. Libra, Signum cœleste. Plin. One of the twelue signes. Libra instrumentum fabrile. Colum. A carpenters line o masons rule. Pari libra cum æquore maris est. Columel. It is euen by lin with the heigth of the sea. Libra. pro libramento. Plin. A counterpoyse: a balassing

To weigh: to poyse: to make weigh tie: to houer: to leuell: to counterpoyse: to diuide equally. Metum librare. Stat. To stand and muse for feare. Apes apprehensi pondusculo lapilli se librant. Plinius. Bees taken with a winde counterpoyse themselfe with the weigh of a litle stone. Librare Æqualiter diuidere. Colum. Et paribus Titan orbem librauerat horis. Colum. Libratum ponderibus. Liu. Counterpoysed with weights. Librare tela. Plin. iun. To cast dartes with violent swinging the arme. Librare malleum. Ouid. To swing a beetle or maller. Manum librare, Vide MANVS. Librare sese ex alto aquila. Plin. The Eagle houereth or soreth high. Corpus librauit in alas. Ouid. He aduaunced him selfe on high with his wings, he did flie.

II. Transf.

A. A measure for liquids: frumenti denos modios et totidem olei libras, Suet. Caes. 38.—

B. 1.. A balance, pair of scales: cum in alteram librae lancem animi bona imponebat, in alteram corporis, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 51; cf. id. Fin. 5, 30, 91.—

2. A water-poise, plummet-level, level, line: sin autem locus ... pari libra cum aequore maris est, Col. 8, 17, 4: libratur autem dioptris aut libris aquariis aut chorobate, Vitr. 8, 6, 1.—Hence, ad libram: alteram navem pluribus aggressus navibus in quibus ad libram fecerat turres, of equal height or of equal weight, Caes. B. C. 3, 40, 1.—

3. Counterpoise, balance: contra flatus quoque pervicax libra Bononiensibus calamis, Plin. 16, 36, 65, 161: aes et libra, v. aes.—

4. The constellation Libra, The Balance, Verg. G. 1, 208; Ov. F. 4, 386; Plin. 18, 25, 59, 221: felix aequato genitus sub pondere Librae, Manil. 4, 545.—

5. Trop., a balance (poet.), Pers. 4, 10: animi cunctantis libra, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 75.

I. To balance, make even, level, to determine a level: aquam, to level water, i. e. to ascertain the fall of water by means of a level, Vitr. 8, 6, 3: collocationem libratam indicare, id 8, 6, 1.—Pass. impers.: libratur autem dioptris, Vitr. 8, 6, 1.—

B. Transf., to make even or level: pavimenta, Cato, R. R. 18, 7.—

II. To hold in equilibrium, to poise, balance: terra librata ponderibus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: columnarum turbines ita librati perpenderunt, ut puero circumagente tornarentur, Plin. 36, 13, 19, 91: librati pondera caeli orbe tene medio, Luc. 1, 58.—

B. To cause to hang or swing, to keep suspended, keep in its place: vela cadunt primo et dubia librantur ab aura, are waved to and fro, Ov. F. 3, 585: et fluctus supra, vento librante, pependit, Sil. 17, 274: aëris vi suspensam librari medio spatio tellurem, Plin. 2, 5, 4, 10.—

C. To cause to swing, to swing, sway, brandish, set in motion, hurl, dash, cast, launch, fling, throw: summā telum librabat ab aure, Verg. A. 9, 417: ferro praefixum robur, id. ib. 10, 479: caestus, id. ib. 5, 478: tum librat ab aure intorquens jaculum, Sil. 5, 576: dextra libratum fulmen ab aure misit, Ov. M. 2, 311; 5, 624; 7, 787; Luc. 3, 433: librata cum sederit glans, Liv. 38, 29: librare se, to balance or poise one's self, to fly: cursum in aëre, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 11: saepe lapillos Tollunt; his sese per inania nubila librant, Verg. G. 4, 196: haliaeetos librans ex alto sese, Plin. 10, 3, 3, 8: corpus in herba, to stretch one's self out on the grass, Ov. F. 1, 429: incidentis manus libratur artifici temperamento, Plin. 12, 25, 54, 115: librare iter, to take one's way, Sen. Oed. 899.—

III. Trop.

A. To make of even weight, to balance, make equal (poet.): orbem horis, Col. 10, 42: crimina in antithetis, Pers. 1, 85.—

B. To weigh, ponder, consider (poet. and in post-class. prose): librabat metus, Stat. Th. 9, 165: quae omnia meritorum momenta perpendit, librat, examinat, Naz. Pan. ad Const. 7: praescriptiones, Cod. Th. 8, 4, 26.— Hence, lībrātus, a, um, P. a.

A. Level, horizontal: aquam non esse libratam, sed sphaeroides habere schema, Vitr. 8, 6.—

B. Poised, balanced, swung, hurled, launched; forcible, powerful: librata cum sederit (glans), Liv. 38, 29: librato magis et certo ictu, violent, powerful, Tac. H. 2, 22: malleus dextra libratus ab aure, Ov. M. 2, 624: per nubes aquila librata volatu, Sil. 15, 429. —Comp.: libratior ictus, Liv. 30, 10; cf. id. 42, 65.—Hence, adv.: lībrātē, deliberately: aliquid eligere, Serv. Verg. A. 2, 713.