pound (subs.) Copy link Outline I. The weight1. lībra2. in large quantities, pondo, indecl. (librae being understood)II. Value twenty shillingsIII. Enclosure • pound (subs.): I. The weight: 1. lībra: sometimes with pondo (pondus) added: a gold crown weighing a p., corona aurea libram pondo, Liv. 4, 20, med.: Varr. (l. pondus, L. L. 5, 36, 169): Plin. Weighing a p., libralis: Col. 6, 2, med.: Plin.: also, librarius, Col. 12, 53, fin.: Gell.: weighing three p.s. trilibris, Hor. S. 2, 2, 33; four p.s, quadrilibris, Pl.: half a p., selibra, Cato R. R. 84: Liv. (pondo may be added as with libra): a quarter of a p., quadrans (pondo), Col. 12, 20, med.: a p. and a half, sesquilibra, ib.: two p.s and a half, *duae librae et semisses (v. half: also, ounce). 2. in large quantities, pondo, indecl. (librae being understood): 20,000 p.s of silver, argenti pondo millia viginti, Caes. B. C. 2, 18: Cic. II. Value twenty shillings: *libra Anglica: Wyttenb. in Kr. III. Enclosure: *septum publicum (pecudibus vagis includendis).