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LNS

remētior, remētīrī, remensus sum

re, metior

deponent verb (4^th conjugation)

to measure or mete again, measure or mete back
To measure back, to go, pass, travel over again
to void or discharge back again
to go over
to think over, reflect upon
to tell again, repeat

Abbreviations

re-mētior, mensus, 4, v. dep. a., to measure or mete again, measure or mete back (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). Lit.: iter retro remensumst, Lucr. 2, 516: si modo rite memor servata remetior astra, Verg. A. 5, 25: frumentum pecuniā remetiri, to measure back with money, i. e. to pay for with an equal measure of money, Quint. Decl. 12, 19 fin.

—In pass. sense: in quā mensurā mensi fueritis, remetietur, Vulg. Matt. 7, 2; id. Marc. 4, 24.

— Transf. To measure back, i. e. to go, pass, or travel over again: iter, Stat. Th. 3, 324: stadia, Plin. 2, 71, 73, § 181.

— In pass. sense: pelagoque remenso, Improvisi aderunt, Verg. A. 2, 181: remenso mari, id. ib. 3, 143.

— In gen., to void or discharge back again: ille fide summā testae sua vina remensus, Reddidit oenophori pondera plena sui, Mart. 6, 89, 5: vinum omne vomitu, Sen. Ep. 95, 21; cf. id. Prov. 3, 13.

— Trop., to go over in one's mind; to think over, reflect upon; to tell again, repeat: totum diem mecum scrutor, facta ac dicta mea remetior, Sen. Ira, 3, 36: fabulam, App. M. 1, p. 104, 7; 2, p. 123, 35.

— (Acc. to I. B. 1.) To measure or pass over again: transmissum discrimen convalescendo remetiri, to remeasure, in recovering, the danger surmounted (i. e. to be continually advancing in recovery), Plin. Ep. 8, 11, 2.