rĕ-pendo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-pendo, di, sum, 3, v. a.,
I to weigh back (syn. compenso).
I Lit. (rare):
aequaque formosae pensa rependis erae,you weigh back, return by weight, the wool weighed out, Ov. H. 9, 78:
pensa,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 41.
Ravenna ternos (asparagos) libris rependit,i. e. produces them three to the pound, Plin. 19, 4, 4, § 54. —
II Transf., to weigh in return, to pay with the same weight, purchase a thing with its weight in money.
A Lit.: cui (Septumuleio) pro C. Gracchi capite erat aurum repensum, * Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 269:
cum Septumuleius Gai Gracchi auro rependendum caput abscisum ad Opimium tulerit, etc.,Plin. 33, 3, 14, § 48; Val. Max. 9, 4, 3:
Aethiopico (magneti) laus summa datur, pondusque argento rependitur,Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 129:
(balsamum) duplo rependebatur argento,id. 12, 25, 54, § 117: auro repensus Miles, ransomed (syn. redemptus), Hor. C. 3, 5, 25. —
B Trop.
1 To pay in kind, pay back, repay, requite, recompense, return, reward, in a good and bad sense (poet. and in postAug. prose):
hac vitam servatae dote rependis?Ov. M. 5, 15; cf.:
gratiam facto,id. ib. 2, 694:
gratiam,Phaedr. 2, prol. 12:
magna,Verg. A. 2, 161:
fatis contraria fata,to balance, id. ib. 1, 239:
pretium vitae,Prop. 4 (5), 11, 100.
vices,id. 4 (5), 4, 58:
pro officiis pretium,Ov. Am. 2, 8, 21:
pia vota,Stat. S. 3, 3, 155:
decus suum cuique (posteritas),Tac. A. 4, 35:
exemplum contra singulos utilitate publicā,id. ib. 14, 44 fin.:
ingenio formae damna,to counterbalance, compensate, Ov. H. 15, 32; cf.:
rependere et compensare leve damnum delibatae honestatis majore aliā honestate,Gell. 1, 3, 23:
incolumitatem turpitudine,to pay for, purchase, Plin. Pan. 44, 5; cf.:
honorem servitute, donis, Col. praef. § 10: culpam hanc magno terrore,Val. Fl. 6, 744:
regis pacta magno luctu,id. 6, 4:
moestam noctem (with ulcisci socios),Stat. Th. 8, 666.— *
2 To weigh in the mind, to meditate upon, ponder, consider:
qui facta rependens, Consilio punire potest,Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 228.