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|lshtext=<b>ex-istĭmo</b>: or existŭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[aestimo]].<br /><b>I</b> = [[aestimo]], to [[value]], [[estimate]], [[reckon]], [[esteem]], [[with]] gen. of [[value]] ([[rare]]): satin abiit [[neque]] [[quod]] dixi flocci existumat? Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 73: dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi existumo, id. Capt. 3, 5, 24: omnia minoris, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 2: magni operam, Nep. Cat. 1, 2: minoris aliquid, id. ib. 1, 4; Suet. Aug. 40.—With interrog. [[clause]]: [[nunc]] si [[dico]] ut res est, quem ad modum existumet me? Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 18 Ritschl. —<br /><b>II</b> In gen., to [[judge]], [[consider]], [[suppose]], [[think]], [[esteem]].—Constr. [[with]] the acc., an [[object]]-[[clause]], a rel.-[[clause]], [[with]] de, or absol.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: si improbum Cresphontem existimaveras, Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 24, 38 (Trag. v. 156, ed. Vahl., [[where]] the [[reading]] is existimas); cf.: [[quod]] eum, qui hoc facit, avarum possumus existimare, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82, § 190; Quint. 5, 12, 21: [[quod]] ego nullo [[modo]] [[existimo]], Cic. Tusc. 3, 11, 25: cottidianae vitae consuetudinem, [[pass]] [[judgment]] [[upon]], Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 41.— In [[pass]].: M. [[Fulcinius]] domi suae [[honestus]] existimatus est, Cic. Caecin. 4, 10; cf.: P. [[Cornelius]], [[homo]], ut existimabatur, [[avarus]] et [[furax]], id. de Or. 2, 66, 268: [[qua]] ([[fama]]) diu [[princeps]] oratorum ... existimandus est, Quint. 11, 3, 8: [[popularitas]] [[signum]] affectati regni est existimatum, id. 5, 9, 13: assimulata sunt schemata existimanda, id. 9, 1, 27: utcunque (haec) animadversa aut existimata erunt, Liv. praef. § 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. and inf. as [[object]] (so [[most]] freq.): tu me amas, ego te amo; [[merito]] id fieri [[uterque]] existimat, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 147: ne id [[quidem]] me dignum esse existimat, Quem adeat, etc., id. As. 1, 2, 23; id. Bacch. 3, 6, 19: si majores nostri existimavissent, quemquam Rulli similem futurum, Cic. Agr. 2, 33, 89: non [[possum]] existimare, [[plus]] quemquam a se ipso [[quam]] me a te amari, id. Fam. 15, 21, 4: ego sic [[existimo]], hos oratores fuisse maximos, id. Brut. 36, 138 et saep.—In [[pass]]. [[with]] an inf. [[clause]] as [[subject]]: fuit hoc in [[utroque]] eorum, ut [[Crassus]] non tam existimari vellet non didicisse, [[quam]] [[illa]] despicere, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 1, 4: [[disciplina]] in Britannia reperta, [[atque]] [[inde]] in Galliam translata esse existimatur, Caes. B. G. 6, 13 fin.: [[Themistocles]] suasisse existimatur Atheniensibus, ut, etc., Quint. 9, 2, 92 et saep.—Pass. impers.: huic (insulae) milia DCCC. in longitudinem esse existimatur, Caes. B. G. 5, 13 fin.; Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 81.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With a rel. or interrog.-[[clause]]: [[haud]] existimans, [[quanto]] labore partum, Ter. Ph. 1, 1, 11: [[nunc]] vos existimate, facta an dicta pluris sint, [[judge]], Sall. J. 85, 14 Cort.; cf.: [[utrum]] avertendae suspicionis [[causa]], etc., an, etc., existimari non poterat, be judged, [[decided]], Caes. B. C. 3, 102, 3: qui ([[Pyrrhus]]) [[utrum]] avarior an crudelior [[sit]], vix existimari potest, Liv. 22, 59, 14: existimari a medicis jubet, an [[talis]] [[caecitas]] ac [[debilitas]] superabiles forent, Tac. H. 4, 81.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With de: de scriptoribus, qui [[nondum]] ediderunt, existimare non possumus, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 7: ex eventu homines de tuo consilio existimaturos videmus, id. Fam. 1, 7, 5: [[male]] de [[aliquo]], to [[have]] a [[bad]] [[opinion]] of [[any]] one, id. Off. 2, 10, 36; cf.: tu [[ipse]] quem ad modum existimes vide, id. Div. in Caecil. 12, 37; id. Att. 6, 2, 3.—Pass. impers.: exstant orationes, ex quibus existimari de ingeniis eorum potest, Cic. Brut. 21, 82.—（ε) With in and abl.: in hostium [[numero]] existimari, to be regarded as an [[enemy]], Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 13.—（ζ) Absol.: ut [[Cicero]] existimat, Quint. 9, 1, 29: [[sicut]] multi existimarunt, id. 8, 6, 67.—Pass. impers.: ita intellegimus [[vulgo]] existimari, Cic. Rep. 2, 15, 28.—As subst.: existĭmantes, ium, m., critics, [[critical]] judges: si in existimantium [[arbitrium]] sua scripta non venerint, Cic. Brut. 24, 92.

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