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dimetior

to measure out

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Where it lives

De Senectute 3 · 3.63/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
De Architectura 6 · 1.04/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dī-mētĭor — Lewis & Short

dī-mētĭor, mensus, 4,

I v. dep. a., to measure any thing, to measure out (v. demetior init.—rare but class.): studium dimetiendi caeli atque terrae, Cic. de Sen. 14, 49: dimetiri et dinumerare syllabas, id. Or. 43, 147: campum ad certamen, Verg. A. 12, 117: mundum, Quint. 12, 11, 10; cf. id. 9, 4, 112.—Hence, part. as subst.: dīmētĭens, entis, f., the diameter (dia/metros), Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 86 sq.!*? In pass. signif.: columnae altitudo dimetiatur in partes duodecim, Vitr. 3, 3; 5, 9; Quint. 8 prooem. § 27: mirari se sollertiam ejus, a quo essent illa dimensa atque descripta, Cic. de Sen. 17, 59; so in the part., Caes. B. G. 2, 19, 5; 4, 17, 3; Quint. 9, 4, 27; Cic. N. D. 2, 62, 155; Verg. G. 1, 231; 2, 284.—Cf. in fut. pass. part.: non cum vitae tempore esse dimetiendam commemorationem nominis nostri, Cic. Arch. 11, 29 Halm (Baiter, dimittendam).

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