I.In agriculture, to cut off, prune: “vineam,” Cato R. R. 49, 1; 50, 1: “arbores,” Col. 11, 2, 32: “palmites falce,” id. 4, 7, 1: “malleolum,” id. 3, 10, 19.—Poet.: umbras (i. e. ramos), Ov. de Nuce, 63.—
II. Ante- and post-class., to esteem, consider, count as; and alicui or ad aliquid, in late Lat., to destine, allot to any one or any thing: “operam alicujus parvi preti,” Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 1: “cum iniquis deputari,” to be classed among, Vulg. Luc. 22, 37; cf.: “aliquid delicto,” to impute, Tert. de Poenit. 3: “omne id esse in lucro,” Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 16 and 21: “si hoc in rem deputas,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 20: “me omnes esse dignum deputant,” id. Amph. 1, 1, 6; cf. Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 83; Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 45: “tun' virum me deputas esse?” Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 9; cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 65: “vaccas steriles aratro,” Pall. Mart. 11, 6; id. Sept. 10, 1: “deputata sibi a natura sedes,” Macr. S. 7, 14 al.: servos ad gladium ludi, to condemn, Capit. Macr. 12.
