Compenso, compensas, compensâre. Cicer.To make recompence or amends.Dissoluere & compensare damna.Cicer.To pay and recompence hurtes.Compensare grauitatem supplicio. Valer. Max. To recompence the grieuousnesse of.Paucitatem pedum grauitatis suæ tarditate compensat.Cic.Otio compensare Reipub. turpitudinem. Cic.Vitium compensare vel facultate, vel copia.Cic.Nónne compensabit cum vno versiculo, tot mea volumina laudum suarum.Cic.Rationes suas compensare cum re aliqua.Cic.Voluptatem cum maximis curis & laboribus compensare.Cic.To require pleasure with cares and trauailes.Compensabatur cum summis doloribus lætitia.Cicer.The forrowes were as great as the ioy.Pedibus compensari pecuniam.Cic.In causam iudicati compensari. Vlpian. Dolus compensandus ab vtraque parte. Vlpian. Must be recompensed on both partes.Labores compensati gloria.Cic.Rewarded with.Vitia senectutis diligentia compensanda sunt.Cic.Are to be amended with diligence. Compensare.To abridge or shorten. Seneca. Hac hac pergam, qu via longum compensat iter. Shorteneth the iourney.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
com-penso (conp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to poise, weigh several things with one another; hence, in the lang. of business, to equalize one thing with another by weighing, to balance with one another, to make good, compensate, balance against, lit. and trop. (class. in prose and poetry; most freq. in Cic.); constr. aliquid cum aliquā re, aliquā re, or absol.I. In gen. (a).Cum aliquā re: nonne compensabit cum uno versiculo tot mea volumina laudum suarum, Cic. Pis. 30, 75: laetitiam cum doloribus, id. Fin. 2, 30, 97: bona cum vitiis, Hor. S. 1, 3, 70.—(b).Aliquā re: summi labores nostri magnā compensati gloriā, Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 14; id. Font. 5, 13 (1, 3): damna ab aliquo aetatis fructu compensata, id. Verr. 2, 5, 13, 33: o vix ullo otio compensandam hanc rei publicae turpitudinem, id. Att. 7, 18, 2; id. Or. 69, 231: paucitatem pedum gravitatis suae (sc. spondei) tarditate, id. ib. 64, 216: tot amissis te unum, Ov. H. 3, 51: pecuniam pedibus, to make up for the low price in shoe-leather, Cato ap. Cic. Fl. 29, 72: facinora ministerio, Curt. 10, 1, 2: reprehendens aliā laude compenses, Quint. 11, 1, 87.— II. In post-Aug. poets, of a way, to shorten, spare, save: longum iter, Sen. Hippol. 83 (cf. pensare iter, Luc. 9, 685).—Hence, compensātō, adv., with compensation or reward, Tert. Pall. 2 (al. leg. compensati).