• worth (
adj.): dignus (with
abl.):
they think the men w. arguing with, homines dignos quibuscum disseratur putant,
Cic. Acad. 2, 6, 18:
w. their hearing, dignum horum auribus,
id. Rep. 1, 13, 19:
v. worthy.
Phr.:
what are pigs w. here? quibus hic pretiis porci veneunt? Pl. Men. 2, 2, 15:
you have a charming slave, w. any price you like, habes graphicum servum et quantivis pretii,
id. Epid. 3, 3, 29:
do not look to what the man is w., noli spectare quanti homo sit,
Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 14:
he is w. nothing, nihili est,
Cic.:
when estates in land were w. little, quum jacerent pretia praediorum,
id. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:
provided that one gold coin should be w. ten silver, dum pro argenteis decem aureus unus valeret,
Liv. 38, 11:
to be w. much (little), multum (parum) valere:
do you not know what money is w.? nescis quo valeat numus?
Hor. S. 1, 1, 73:
this is w. something to me: *hoc mihi in lucro est, hinc ego pecuniam lucror:
to count it as w. something, id deputare esse in lucro,
Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 16:
he is w. a large sum of money, *divitias maximas habet;
you wished to be known as w. (to be rated at) a great sum in landed property, voluisti magnum agri modum censeri,
Cic. Fl. 32, 80:
it is w. knowing what guardians the virtue (of Augustus) has, est operae pretium cognoscere quales aedituos habeat virtus,
Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 229.