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demetior

the stated allowance

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Where it lives

Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

dē-mētĭor — Lewis & Short

dē-mētĭor, mensus, 4,

I v. a., to measure out, to measure, as a whole (whereas dimetior is to measure the parts of a whole—very rare): ut verba verbis quasi demensa et paria respondeant, Cic. Or. 12, 38; so Quint. 5, 10, 124 (al. dimensis): vos meministis quot calendis petere demensum cibum, i. e. the stated allowance of slaves, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 3.—Hence, dēmensum, i, n., a measured allowance, ration of slaves: quod ille unciatim de demenso suo comparsit, Ter. Ph. 1, 1, 9; Spart. Hadr. 7 fin.; Inscr. Orell. 2849; cf. Donat. ad Ter. l. l.; Sen. Ep. 80; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 40 Orelli.—In a comic transf.: nunc argumentum vobis demensum dabo, Non modio neque trimodio, verum ipso horreo, Plaut. Men. prol. 14.

In the wild

demetitur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.27.p1
demensa Cicero, Orator 38
demetitur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.7.p1
demetitur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.24.p2
demetit Silius Italicus, Punica 5.286
demetit Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.157

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