1. v. efficere, also esse: explere. What dues the whole amount to? quae summa est? quantum est? To amount to a great sum, longam summam efficere or conficere. The whole number amounted to more than 80, 000 men, omnis numerus explebat amplius octoginta millia (Velleius). To what does this amount? id autem quantulum est? (the amount being smalt). To amount to any thing (= to have it for its result), eo or hue redire (Ter., etc.): hunc adeo exitum habere (have no other result than this: of actions, , etc.). The evil at worst can only amount to a divorce, incommoditas hue omnis redit, si eveniat discessio (Ter., Andr., 3, 3, 35). Anything amounts but to this, that, (In such a sentence as is given in Johnson: “the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.”) etc., perhaps aliquid non ferme longius progreditur, quam ut, etc. It amounts to the same thing, idem est: par est (Cic., pro Muren., 10, 41). It amounts to the same thing, whether - or, nihil interest, utrum - an. The whole argument of his letter amounts to this, summa epistolae haec est. What he said amounted to this, exitus fuit orationis (Caes., B.G., 4, 6, Herzog).