commetior
From LSJ
ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι → narrowly missed destroying
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
com-mētĭor: (con-m-), mensus, 4, v. dep.,
I to measure (very rare): omnes porticus, Plaut. Most. 3, 3, 8: agros, Col. 5, 1, 2: siderum ambitus inter se numero, Cic. Univ. 9.—*
II Trop., to measure with or by something, to proportion: negotium cum tempore, Cic. Inv. 1, 26, 39.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
commētĭor, mēnsus sum, mētīrī, tr.,
1 mesurer : Col. Rust. 5, 1, 2