mētior mēnsus, īrī, dep. 1 MA-, to measure, mete: magnitudinem mundi: nummos, i. e. have in great abundance, H.: pedes syllabis, measure by syllables: annum, i. e. divide, O.: Hesperiam metire iacens, i. e. with your dead body, V.

—To measure out, deal out, distribute: frumentum militibus, Cs.: exercitui si metiendum esset: Caecubum, H.

—To measure, pass over, traverse: Sacram viam, pace off, H.: aequor curru, sail through, V.: carinā aquas, O.

—Fig., to measure, estimate, judge, value: suo metu pericula, S.: sonantia metiri auribus: oculo latus, H.: omnia quaestu, by profit: homines virtute, non fortunā, N.: se suo modulo ac pede, H.: nec se metitur ad illum modum, i. e. accommodates herself, Iu.: quanto Metiris pretio, quod, etc., Iu.