BALANCE Copy link • BALANCE 1. s. for weighing: trutina (τρυτάνη PROP. the hole in which the tongue of the balance plays: then general term for balance: trutinae, quae staterae dicuntur, Vitr., 10, 3, 8, 4): libra (a pair of scales): statera (mostly steel-yard; seldom pair of scales): lanx (the scale of the balance): to weigh in a balance, pendere; trutina examinare (Cic., De Or., 2, 38, 159): not to weigh in too nice a balance, non aurificis statera, sed populari trotina examinare: librare. Equality of weight, momentum par [not aequilibritas, or aequilibrium. Vid: Dict.] . The balance is destroyed, portionum aequitas turbatur: to disturb the balance of the mind, aequitatem animi turbare (Sen.): in a balance, pari momento, or suis ponderibus libratus: to maintain a balance of power, providere, ne aequa civitatum conditio turbetur: to lose one’s balance, labi. That which is wanting to make equal, or the difference, quod reliquum restat. Of a watch, libramentum. Fig., consideratio; reputatio; deliberatio; comparatio. 2. v. to keep in equilibrium, aliquid suis ponderibus librare. INTR., suis ponderibus librari (after Cic., Tusc, 5, 24, 69): librare; pendere; pensare; ponderare; trutina examinare: to balance virtues and vices against each other, perpendere vitia virtutesque: to balance every word, unumquodque verbum statera examinare (Varr., Non., 455, 21; Cic., De Or., 2, 38, 159). To balance an account, rationes consolidare (Cic.). To balance or make equal, adaequare aliquid cum aliquo.