• COUNTERBALANCE

1. s. *vis renitens (after Plin., 2, 82, 84; e.g., altera vis alteri renititur) :aequipondium (in so far as it establishes an equilibrium with another weight, Vitr., 10, 3, 4).

2. v. aequare: exaequare (to make equal): pensare: compensare aliquid aliqua re (to weigh, as it were, one thing against the other, to establish an equilibrium): parem calculum ponere cum aliqua re (to give as good in return; e.g., a present, Plin., Ep., 5, 2, = remunerari aliquem quam simillimo munere): the benefits received counterbalance those conferred, par est ratio acceptorum et datorum: to counterbalance the deficiency in the revenue by economy, quod cessat ex reditu, frugalitate supplere.