I.by weight, in weight.
A. In gen.: “neque piscium ullam unciam hodie pondo cepi,” an ounce weight, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 8: “ut exercitus coronam auream dictatori libram pondo decreverit,” a pound in weight, weighing a pound, Liv. 3, 29; 4, 20: “vettonicae tusae pondo libra,” Plin. 26, 7, 19, § 33: “pretium in pondo libras denarii duo,” id. 33, 12, 56, § 158: “styracis, resinae terebinthinae pondo sextantes,” Cels. 5, 25, 16: “sextarium aquae cum dodrante pondo mellis diluunt,” Col. 12, 12: “argenti in convivio plus pondo quam libras centum inferre,” Gell. 2, 24, 2.—
B. In partic., with numerals, as the usual measure of weight, as subst. indecl., pounds (sc. libra; “freq. and class.): COMPEDIBVS QVINDECIM PONDO ... VINCITO, Fragm. XII. Tabularum: quot pondo te censes esse nudum?” Plaut. As. 2, 2, 33: “auri quinque pondo abstulit,” Cic. Clu. 64, 179: “argenti pondo viginti millia,” Caes. B. C. 2, 18; Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 51; 11, 42, 97, § 241: “fulmen aureum quinquaginta pondo auri,” Liv. 22, 1, 17.—Gen.: rettuli auri pondo mille octingentūm septuaginta, Varr. ap. Non. 149, 19: “corona aurea pondo ducentūm,” id. ib. 163, 33.
