ponder Copy link Outline 1. consīdĕro, 12. vŏlūto, 1 (to turn over and over)3. ăgĭto, 1 (to be busily engaged with or intent on; usu. with the notion of an end to be attained) • ponder: 1. consīdĕro, 1: v. to consider. (Expendo, perpendo, pondero, to weigh carefully, so as to appreciate justly, not simply to think about: cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 76, fin., expendere argumenta, opp. to numerare: id. Mur. 2, init., perpendere momenta officiorum: also, id. de Or. 3, 37, 150, delectum verborum ponderare.) 2. vŏlūto, 1 (to turn over and over): usu. with animo, Cic. Rep. 1, 17; or, in animo, Liv. 28, 18, fin. In same sense, volvo, i, ūtum, 3 (of which voluto is frequent.): with like constr.: e. g., cum animo suo volvere, Sall. Jug. 6; secum, id. Cat. 32; in animo, Liv. 2, 49, med. 3. ăgĭto, 1 (to be busily engaged with or intent on; usu. with the notion of an end to be attained): with mecum, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 10; in mente, Cic. N. D. 1, 41, 114; (in) animo, Liv. 21, 2: also absol., Cic. Verr. 3, 96, 224.
PONDER Copy link • PONDERcontemplari animo, or animo et cogitatione: considerare secum in animo: contemplari: considerare; (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemplari et considerare: referre animum ad aliquid (to turn one’s mind to): lustrare animo or ratione animoque (as it were, to review with the mind): circumspicere mente (to examine thoroughly): expendere, perpendere (to weigh). To ponder as accurately and carefully as possible, aliquid quam maxime intentis oculis, ut aiunt, acerrime contemplari.