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LNS

mētor, mētārī, mētātus sum

meta, meo

deponent verb (1^st conjugation)

to measure, mete
to measure off, mark out
to traverse, pass through
to measure out, mark, lay out
to erect, pitch, set up

Abbreviations

mētor, ātus, 1, v. dep. meta, to measure, mete; to measure off, mark out (not in Cic.). In gen.: stadium Hercules pedibus suis metatus est, Gell. 1, 1, 2: caelum, Ov. F. 1, 309: Indiam, Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 57.

—Poet., to traverse, pass through: nunc nemoris alti densa metatur loca, Sen. Hippol. 505: agros, Sil. 6, 58.

— In partic. Act., to measure out, mark, or lay out: castra metati signa statuunt, Cael. ap. Non. 137, 18: castra, * Caes. B. C. 3, 13, 3: cum ortu solis castra metabatur, measured out the ground for a camp, encamped, pitched his camp, Sall. J. 106, 5: agrum, Liv. 21, 25: agros, Verg. G. 2, 274: eam (i. e. Alexandriam), Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62: regiones (for a temple), Liv. 1, 10, 6: castra, Vulg. 3 Reg. 20, 27.

— Neutr., to encamp, pitch one's tent: metarique sub ipso templo ... jussit, Liv. 44, 7, 2: post tabernaculum, Vulg. Num. 3, 23.

—Hence, transf., to erect, pitch, set up: tabernacula ciliciis, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143.

—Act. collat. form, mēto, āre, to measure, measure out, etc.: loca, Verg. Cul. 172.

—Pass.: locus metatur, Sen. Thyest. 462.

—Often in part. perf.: castris eo loco metatis, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15; so, castra, Liv. 44, 37, 1: porticus, Hor. C. 2, 15, 15: agellus, id. S. 2, 2, 114: prope Beroeam vallo metato, Amm. 31, 9, 1.