I.expense, cost, loss (mostly ante- and post-class.; cf.: impensa, impendium, sumptus; also: noxa, damnum, detrimentum, jactura, incommodum).
I. Lit.: “dispendium ideo, quod in dispendendo solet minus fieri,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 183 Müll.: “sine damno et dispendio,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 35; cf. “so with sumptus,” Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 7: “minore nusquam bene fui dispendio,” Plaut. Men. 3, 2, 20: “ut gratiam ineat sine suo dispendio,” Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 29: neque dispendi facit hilum, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 60 Müll.; cf. * Lucr. 2, 1127: “alicui afferre dispendium,” Col. 4, 24, 1: “quod dispendium pauci intellegunt,” Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53: “dispendia (comae),” Ov. Am. 1, 14, 43; cf. id. ib. 1, 7, 25: “viarum,” i. e. a roundabout way, Mart. 9, 100: “silvae,” Luc. 8, 2.—
2. Trop.: hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti, loss of time, * Verg. A. 3, 453: “famae,” Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 452: “disciplinae,” Aus. Grat. Act. 32.
