WEIGH Copy link • WEIGH 1. (sometimes written WAY), s., To get under weigh, navem solvere, or simply solvere; more rarely, vela in altum dare (Liv.), or vela dare ventis (poetical): to be under weigh, navis solvit; a terra provehi. 2. v. PROP., pendere (general term): pensare (to weigh carefully or exactly): ponderare (to try the weigh of anything): examinare (to bring to the scales). To weigh anything by a certain weight, ad certum pondus examinare aliquid. Figuratively, To balance, examine, pendere aliquid ex re: pensare, ponderare aliquid re and ex re: perpendere ad aliquid (to weigh exactly). To weigh virtues and vices exactly against each other, perpendere vitia virtutesque: to weigh every word in a balance, unumquodque verbum statera examinare (Varr., ap. Non., 455, 21; ☞ Cic., De Or., 2, 38, 159): to weigh words, pondera verborum examinare; (carefully), esse verborum pensitatorem subtilissimum (Gell., 17, 1). To ponder, expendere: perpendere: pensitare: ponderare: examinare (to consider the reasons for and against): considerare, especially with cum animo, in animo, or secum (to debate in one’s own mind): reputare (to bethink one’s self, consider; especially with secum animo or cum animo): agitare mente, animo, in mente, or cum animo: volutare secum, animo, in animo: volvere animo or secum: versare secum in animo (to turn over or revolve in one’s mind, to meditate upon): ☞ volutare, volvere, etc., never thus used by Cic., frequently by Liv., and Sall.