Pondo, indeclinabile, n. g. Plaut.A pound weight.Quot pondo te est censes nudum? Plau.How many pounde doest thou thinke thy selfe to weigh naked? Dicimus duo millia põdo, ibi esse genitiui casus. Mille pondo, nominatiui est. Bismille pondo, nominatiuus est, quia mille adiectiuum est. Tamen non dicimus, bina, terna pondo, sed duo, tria. Auri quinque pondo abstulit.Cic.Torquis aureus duo pondo.Liu.A chaine of gold weighing two pound. Auri pondo decem reddidit. Cic.Centum pondo vasorum argenteorum.Cicer.An hundred pound weight of place.Pependêre pondo DCC. Plin. Mellis pondo. Col. Olei pondo octoginta. Col. Pondo apud Romanos centum denarios argenteos valer, vel vt aliqui volunt, octoginta quatuor. Pondo, Idem quod pondus.Weight: poise. vt Corona aurea libræ pondo. Li. A crowne of gold of a pound weight.Cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt. Col. With ix. ounces weight of honnie.Calami pondo libra. Colum. A ponnde weight of.Amomi pondo quadrans. Colum. A quarter of a pounde of Amomum. Adde pondo libram. Colum. Put to a pound weight more.Pondus. pónderis, pen. cor. n. gen. Cic.Poise or weight: the thing weighed in a ballaunce. A burden or load: a charge Grauitie: estimation: authoritie.Saxi pondus. Lucret. Gemuit sub pondere cymba.Virg.The boate being ouerloden cracked.Pinus tarda pondere.Virg. Brene pondus. Hor. Flagellata pondera.Stat. Ima flagellatis signum lugubre malorum ponderibus trepidauit humus. The earth, naturally hanging and as it were counterpoised in the aire, did quake as a sorrowful token of il to come.Graue pondus.Ouid. Iaculabile. Stat.Immane. Plin. Immensum Hor. Iners.Ouid. Ingens. Ouid.Iniquum.Virg.Irreuocabile pondus anchoræ, Vide IRREVOCABILIS.Iustum.Ouid. Leue. Oui. Magnum. Plinius. Maturo pondere grauis venter.Ouid.Muralia pondera vasti saxi. Lucan. Reuolubile pondus.Ouid. Ruitura pondera. Claud. Solida pondera. Lucret. Vix tractabile pondus. Sta. Aggrauare pondus. Plin. Cedere ponderi, Vide CEDO.Vasto pondere ad terram concidit.Virg.With great weight he fel to the ground.Deducere pondera deorsum. Lucr. Aequis ponderibus ferri. Lucr. Feruntur in terram omnia suo nutu pondera. Ci. Al heauie things of their owne nature fall down toward the earth.Grauius iusto pallia pondus habent.Ouid.Niti valido sub pondere.Virg.Aspice conuexo nutantem pondere mundum.Virg.Subito pondere procubuit turris.Virg.Ictaque subsedit pondere mollis humus.Ouid.Tolerare pondus tauri ruentis in venerem. Hor. Saxa quoque infesto voluebant pondere.Virg. Pondus.Cic.That is weighed in a ballance.MagnÛ auri pondus. Ci. A great weight or summe of gold.Grande pondns argenti.Cic.Magnum argenti pondus.Cic. Pondus pro libra.Cic.A ballaunce.Hoc meis ponderibus examinabo. C. I wil trie or examine this by mine owne weights or balance. Senectæ amara pondera.Ouid.The vnpleasant burden of old age.Pondus veteris triste supercilij. Sen. The seuere grauitie of countenaunce and sad looke that auncient men are wonte to haue.Graue ipsius conscientiæ pondus est. Ci. The burden of his owne conscience is grieuous. Imponere põdus alicui.Ouid.To lay a lode or burden on.Nec potui cœpti pondera ferre mei.Ouid.I coulde not sustaine the weight or charge of mine euterprise. Dulce eloquendi pondus. Clau. The pleasant weight and grauitie of eloquence.Amabile pondus mentis. Sil. Amiable grauitie. Testimonij pondus.Cic.The substantialnesse and authoritie of a witnesse or testimonie.Verborum ponderibus est vtendÛ. Ci. We must vse waightiuesse, authoritie and grauitie of words. Accedit magnum pondus ad tollendam dubitationÊ.Cic.Addere pondus nugis. Hor. To adde authoritie to trifles.Afferre pondus, Vide AFFERO.Habere pondus.Cic.To haue weight or authoritie: to be of estimation.Habere pondus apud aliquem. Ci. To haue authority about one and be of estimation with him.Si mea authoritas satis apud illos in hac re ponderis habe ret. Cic.If my authoritie were of sufficient weight and estimation with them.Eius filius eodem est apud me pondere, quo fuit ille. C. His sonne is in as much estimation with me as euer he was.Tuæ literæ maximi sunt apud me ponderis. Ci. I do greatly esteeme your letters.Id est maximi momenti & ponderis.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pondo, adv. [abl. from pondus], by weight, in weight.A. In gen.: neque piscium ullam unciam hodie pondo cepi,
an ounce weight
, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8: ut exercitus coronam auream dictatori libram pondo decreverit,
a pound in weight
,
weighing a pound
, Liv. 3, 29; 4, 20: vettonicae tusae pondo libra, Plin. 26, 7, 19, 33: pretium in pondo libras denarii duo, id. 33, 12, 56, 158: styracis, resinae terebinthinae pondo sextantes, Cels. 5, 25, 16: sextarium aquae cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt, Col. 12, 12: argenti in convivio plus pondo quam libras centum inferre, Gell. 2, 24, 2.—B. In partic., with numerals, as the usual measure of weight, as subst. indecl., pounds (sc. libra; freq. and class.): COMPEDIBVS QVINDECIM PONDO ... VINCITO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: quot pondo te censes esse nudum?Plaut. As. 2, 2, 33: auri quinque pondo abstulit, Cic. Clu. 64, 179: argenti pondo viginti millia, Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Plin. 33, 3, 15, 51; 11, 42, 97, 241: fulmen aureum quinquaginta pondo auri, Liv. 22, 1, 17.—Gen.: rettuli auri pondo mille octingentūm septuaginta, Varr. ap. Non. 149, 19: corona aurea pondo ducentūm, id. ib. 163, 33.