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σταθμ-άω , Ion. σταθμ-έω Hdt.2.150 (Med.), Hp.Nat.Puer.30 (Pass.): —
A.measure by rule (στάθμη）, πλέθρου σταθμήσας μῆκος εἰς εὐγωνίαν (sc. τὴν σκηνήν) E.Ion 1137; ς. τὸ ὕδωρ measure or weigh it, Ath.2.43b; certify as containing full measure, PTeb.5.86 (ii B.C.):—Pass., to be measured or weighed, “σταθμεόμενα” Hp. l.c., cf. LXX3 Ki.6.23: fut. Med. in pass. sense, “ταλάντῳ μουσικὴ σταθμήσεται” Ar.Ra.797: pf. Pass., “ἐπὶ τρισὶν ἐστάθμηται Δελτωτὸν πλευρῇσιν” Arat.234.
II. more freq. in Med. σταθμάομαι , Ion. σταθμόομαι (q.v.), measure, “σταθμᾶτο . . ἄλσος πατρί” Pi.O.10(11).45; τὰς τράφας (i.e. τάφρους）“ ὀρύξει . . ὅπου ἂν σταθμήσωνται οἱ νεωποῖαι” SIG963.28 (Amorgos, iv B.C.); calculate, estimate distance or size, without actual measurement, Hdt.2.150; “ς. ὅκως ἐξελεύσεται . . ” Id.9.37; μετρεῖν ἢ ς. Pl.Lg.643c; “σταθμήσασθαι τοὺς ἀστερίσκους” Call.Iamb.1.119.
2. metaph., measure, estimate, τινι by some criterion, “ς. ταῖς χάρισι” Pl.Grg. 465d; [ταύτῃ τῇ στάθμῃ] Luc.Hist.Conscr.63: abs., conjecture, S.OT 1111.
3. attach weight to a thing, take it into account, “τούτων τι ς. ὧν ὅδε λέγει” Pl.Ly.205a; “εἴ τι δεῖ σταθμᾶσθαι τοῦτο” Thphr. HP9.4.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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