To meate or measure: to passe or go ouer: to esteeme: to indge. Interuallis æqualibus aliquid metiri. Cic. To draw out with equall spaces betweene. Agrum aliquem metiri. Cic. Frumentum metiri. Cic. Parcè & paulatim metiri frumentum. Cæsar. To serue out corne sparingly by litle and litle. Mundi magnitudinem metiri. Cic. Stipendium. Curt. In hasta. metiri se. Stat. Aunum metiri sol dicitur. Ouid. Æternitas nulla temporis circunscriptione metitur. Cicer. Euerlastingnesse hath no boundes or limits of time. Oculo metiri aliquid. Horat. To ouerlooke. Prospectu metior æquora. Ouid. I looke vpon the seas. Animo metiri aliquid. Ouid. To consider in minde. Pectus alicuius metiri cuspide. Silu. To thrust one through the breast with his speare. Pedibus metiri aliquid. Cic. To passe or goe ouer. Metiri gradibus, pro Abire. Plaut. To goe away. Iter cursu metiens. Catul. Metiri. Virg. To passe ouer. Aquas metiri carina. Ouid. To sayle or passe ouer the seas with a shippe. Auribus sonantia omnia metiri. Ouid. Metiri. To esteeme or iudge. Cic. Conuiuiorum delectationem cœtu amicorum & sermonibus metiebar. I did esteeme the pleasautnesse of bankets by the good company offriendes and honest talke. Metiri summum bonum suis commodis. Cic. To measure or iudge the shoote anker of all goodnesse by his owne commodtries. Omnia quæ ad beatam vitam pertineant, ventre metiri. Cic. To esteeme felicitie and happy lyfe to rest in nothing but banketting or making good cheere. Metiri omnia dignitate, non ambitione. Cic. Angustè rantos metiris honores. Stat. Thou doest not sufficiently esteeme so great honours. Modum diuitiarum, ex eo quantum cuique satis est, homines metiuntur. Cic. Metiens aliorum in se odium suo in alios odio. Liu. Esteeming other mens hatred toward him, by his toward other men. Vitijs hominum, non rerum euentu metienda sunt peccata. Cic. Offences are to be esteemed. Suo modulo ac pede metiri se. Horat. Studia nostra naturæ regula metiamur. Cic.

I. Lit.: mensuram facere alicujus, Ov A. A. 3, 265: agere, to measure, survey, Plin. Ep. 10, 28, 5: inire. Col 5, 3: res (quae) pondere numero mensura constant, Gai. Inst. 2, 196.—

II. Transf., a measure, by which any thing is measured: majore mensurā reddere, Cic. Off. 1, 15, 48: qui modus mensurae medimnus appellatur, kind of measure, Nep. Att. 2, 6: mensuras et pondera invenit Phidon Argivus, aut Palamedes, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 198: ex aquā, i. e. clepsydra, Caes. B. G. 5, 13: quicquid sub aurium mensuram aliquam cadit, numerus vocatur, Cic. Or 20, 67: de mensura jus dicere, Juv. 10, 101. —

B. Trop., measure, quantity, proportion, capacity, power, extent, degree, etc.: dare alicui mensuram bibendi, to prescribe how much one may drink, Ov. A. A. 1, 589: nostri orbis, Tac. Agr. 12: beneficii, Plin. Ep. 10, 12, 2: qui tanti mensuram nominis imples, i. e. who answerest to its meaning, art worthy of it, Ov. P. 1, 2, 1: ficti crescit, measure, size, id. M. 12, 57: sui, one's own measure, i. e. capacity, Juv. 11, 35: sed deerat pisci patinae mensura, was too small, Juv. 4, 72: nuribus Argolicis fui Mensura voti, I was the measure of their wishes, i. e. they desired to have as much as I possessed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 400: submittere se ad mensuram discentis, to accommodate one's self to the capacity of the learner, Quint. 2, 3, 7: legati, character, standing. Tac. H. 1, 52: mensura tamen quae sufficiat census, how large a fortune, Juv. 14. 316.—In painting: Apelles cedebat Asclepiodoro de mensuris, hoc est quanto quid a quoque distare deberet, the degree of prominence, and relative distances, of parts of a picture, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 80.—In gram.: mensurae verborum, the quantities of their syllables, Quint. 10, 1, 10.

I. Lit.: metiri agrum, Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 2: frumentum, id. Verr. 2, 3, 83, 192: sol, quem metiri non possunt, id. Ac. 2, 41, 128: magnitudinem mundi, id. Off. 1, 43, 154: nummos, to measure one's money, i. e. to have a great abundance of it, Hor. S. 1, 1, 95: nummos modio, Petr. S. 37: se ad candelabrum, id. ib. 75: pedes syllabis, to measure by syllables, Cic. Or. 57, 194: frumentum militibus metiri, Caes. B. G. 1, 16: cum exercitu frumentum metiri oporteret, id. ib. 1, 23; 7, 71: Caecubum, Hor. Epod. 9, 36: quis mensus est pugillo aquas? Vulg. Isa. 40, 12: tantus acervus fuit, ut metientibus dimidium super tres modios explesse, sint quidam auctores, Liv. 23, 12.—

B. Poet. transf., to measure a distance, i. e. to pass, walk, or sail through or over, to traverse: Sacram metiente te viam (of the measured pace of a proud person), Hor. Epod. 4, 7: aequor curru, to sail through, Verg. G. 4, 389: aquas carinā, Ov. M. 9, 446: tu, cursu, dea menstruo metiens iter annuom, to go through complete, Cat. 34, 17: instabili gressu metitur litora cornix, Luc. 5, 556.—Also absol.: quin hic metimur gradibus militariis, to walk, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 11.—

II. Trop., to measure, estimate, judge one thing by another; also simply to measure, estimate, judge of, set a value on a thing.

(a). With abl. of the standard of comparison, or the means of judgment: sonantia metiri auribus, Cic. Or. 68, 227: oculo latus, Hor. S. 1, 2, 103: omnia quaestu, by profit, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 111: qui nihil alterius causa faciet et metietur suis commodis omnia, id. Leg. 1, 14, 41: vides igitur, si amicitiam sua caritate metiare, nihil esse praestantius, id. Fin. 2, 26, 85: vim eloquentiae sua facultate non rei natura, id. Opt. Gen. Or. 4, 10: omnia voluptate, id. Fam. 7, 12, 2: studia utilitate, Quint. 12, 11, 29: magnos homines virtute, non fortuna, Nep. Eum. 1: usum pecuniae non magnitudine, sed ratione, Cic. Att. 14: officia utilitate, Lact. 6, 11, 12: odium in se aliorum suo in eos metiens odio, Liv. 3, 54: pericula suo metu, Sall. C. 31, 2: peccata vitiis, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20: aetatem nostram non spatio senectutis, sed tempore adulescentiae, Quint. 12, 11, 13.—

(b). With ex (very rare): fidelitas, quam ego ex mea conscientiā metior, Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2: ex eo, quantum cuique satis est, metiuntur homines divitiarum modum, id. Par. 6, 1, 14.—

(g). With ad: nec se metitur ad illum quem dedit haec (paupertas) posuitque modum, i. e. accommodates herself, Juv. 6, 358.—

(d). Absol. (post-Aug.): metiri ac diligenter aestimare vires suas, Quint. 6, 1, 45: pondera sua, Mart. 12, 100, 8: sua regna, Luc. 8, 527. —(e) With quod: quanto metiris pretio, quod, etc., Juv. 9, 72.—

B. To traverse. go over, pass through: late Aequora prospectu metior alta meo, Ov. H. 10, 28: tot casus, tot avia, Val. Fl. 5, 476: jamque duas lucis partes Hyperione menso, Ov. M. 8, 564.—

C. To measure out, deal to any one, treat one well or ill: mensurā quā mensi fueritis, remetietur vobis, Vulg. Luc. 6, 38; cf. id. Matt. 7, 2.!*? In pass. signif., to be measured: agri glebatim metiebantur, Lact. Mort. Persec. 23, 2: an sol pedis unius latitudine metiatur, Arn. 2, 86.—Part. perf.: mensus, a, um, measured off: mensa spatia conficere, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 69.—As subst.: bene mensum dabo, good measure, Sen. Q. N. 4, 4, 1.