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rĕ-pendo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to weigh back (syn. compenso).

  1. I. Lit. (rare): aequaque formosae pensa rependis erae, you weigh back, return by weight, the wool weighed out, Ov. H. 9, 78: pensa, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 41: Ravenna ternos (asparagos) libris rependit, i. e. produces them three to the pound, Plin. 19, 4, 4, § 54.
  2. II. Transf., to weigh in return, to pay with the same weight, purchase a thing with its weight in money.
    1. A. Lit.: cui (Septumuleio) pro C. Gracchi capite erat aurum repensum, * Cic. de Or. 2, 67, 269: cum Septumuleius Gai Gracchi auro rependendum caput abscisum ad Opimium tulerit, etc., Plin. 33, 3, 14, § 48; Val. Max. 9, 4, 3: Aethiopico (magneti) laus summa datur, pondusque argento rependitur, Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 129: (balsamum) duplo rependebatur argento, id. 12, 25, 54, § 117: auro repensus Miles, ransomed (syn. redemptus), Hor. C. 3, 5, 25.
    2. B. Trop.
      1. 1. To pay in kind, pay back, repay, requite, recompense, return, reward, in a good and bad sense (poet. and in postAug. prose): hac vitam servatae dote rependis? Ov. M. 5, 15; cf.: gratiam facto, id. ib. 2, 694: gratiam, Phaedr. 2, prol. 12: magna, Verg. A. 2, 161: fatis contraria fata, to balance, id. ib. 1, 239: pretium vitae, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 100: vices, id. 4 (5), 4, 58: pro officiis pretium, Ov. Am. 2, 8, 21: pia vota, Stat. S. 3, 3, 155: decus suum cuique (posteritas), Tac. A. 4, 35: exemplum contra singulos utilitate publicā, id. ib. 14, 44 fin.: ingenio formae damna, to counterbalance, compensate, Ov. H. 15, 32; cf.: rependere et compensare leve damnum delibatae honestatis majore aliā honestate, Gell. 1, 3, 23: incolumitatem turpitudine, to pay for, purchase, Plin. Pan. 44, 5; cf.: honorem servitute, donis, Col. praef. § 10: culpam hanc magno terrore, Val. Fl. 6, 744: regis pacta magno luctu, id. 6, 4: moestam noctem (with ulcisci socios), Stat. Th. 8, 666.
      2. * 2. To weigh in the mind, to meditate upon, ponder, consider: qui facta rependens, Consilio punire potest, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 228.