pēnsum ī, n
P. n. of pendo,
wool weighed out to a slave for a day's spinning, allotment of wool
: nocturna carpentes pensa puellae, V.:
famulasque ad lumina longo Exercet penso,
V.: pensa manu ducunt,
Iu.—Fig.,
a charge, duty, office
: meae diligentiae: nominis familiaeque,
L. —
Weight, consideration, scruple, importance
(only gen. of price): nihil pensi neque moderati habere, i. e.
practise no reverence or self-control
, S.: neque id quibus modis adsequeretur, quicquam
pensi habebat, i. e.
had no scruple
, S.: sed illis nec quid dicerent, quicquam umquam
pensi fuisse,
they never cared at all
, L.: quibus si quicquam pensi umquam fuisset,
non, etc.,
had they ever had regard for anything
, S.
