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|lshtext=<b>lībro</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[libra]].<br /><b>I</b> To [[balance]], [[make]] [[even]], [[level]], to [[determine]] a [[level]]: aquam, to [[level]] [[water]], i. e. to [[ascertain]] the [[fall]] of [[water]] by [[means]] of a [[level]], Vitr. 8, 6, 3: collocationem libratam indicare, id 8, 6, 1.—Pass. impers.: libratur [[autem]] dioptris, Vitr. 8, 6, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[make]] [[even]] or [[level]]: pavimenta, [[Cato]], R. R. 18, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> To [[hold]] in [[equilibrium]], to [[poise]], [[balance]]: [[terra]] librata ponderibus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 24, 69: columnarum turbines ita librati perpenderunt, ut puero circumagente tornarentur, Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 91: librati pondera caeli orbe tene [[medio]], Luc. 1, 58.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[cause]] to [[hang]] or [[swing]], to [[keep]] suspended, [[keep]] in its [[place]]: [[vela]] cadunt [[primo]] et dubia librantur ab [[aura]], are waved to and [[fro]], Ov. F. 3, 585: et [[fluctus]] [[supra]], [[vento]] librante, pependit, Sil. 17, 274: aëris vi suspensam librari [[medio]] spatio tellurem, Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> To [[cause]] to [[swing]], to [[swing]], [[sway]], [[brandish]], [[set]] in [[motion]], [[hurl]], [[dash]], [[cast]], [[launch]], [[fling]], [[throw]]: summā [[telum]] librabat ab aure, Verg. A. 9, 417: ferro praefixum [[robur]], id. ib. 10, 479: [[caestus]], id. ib. 5, 478: tum librat ab aure intorquens jaculum, Sil. 5, 576: [[dextra]] libratum [[fulmen]] ab aure misit, Ov. M. 2, 311; 5, 624; 7, 787; Luc. 3, 433: librata cum sederit [[glans]], Liv. 38, 29: librare se, to [[balance]] or [[poise]] one's [[self]], to [[fly]]: cursum in aëre, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 11: [[saepe]] lapillos Tollunt; his [[sese]] per inania [[nubila]] librant, Verg. G. 4, 196: [[haliaeetos]] librans ex [[alto]] [[sese]], Plin. 10, 3, 3, § 8: [[corpus]] in [[herba]], to [[stretch]] one's [[self]] [[out]] on the [[grass]], Ov. F. 1, 429: incidentis [[manus]] libratur artifici temperamento, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 115: librare [[iter]], to [[take]] one's [[way]], Sen. Oed. 899.—<br /><b>III</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[make]] of [[even]] [[weight]], to [[balance]], [[make]] [[equal]] ([[poet]].): orbem horis, Col. 10, 42: crimina in antithetis, Pers. 1, 85.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[weigh]], [[ponder]], [[consider]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]]): librabat [[metus]], Stat. Th. 9, 165: quae omnia meritorum momenta perpendit, librat, examinat, Naz. [[Pan]]. ad Const. 7: praescriptiones, Cod. Th. 8, 4, 26.— Hence, lībrātus, a, um, P. a.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Level, [[horizontal]]: aquam non esse libratam, sed [[sphaeroides]] habere [[schema]], Vitr. 8, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Poised, [[balanced]], swung, hurled, launched; [[forcible]], [[powerful]]: librata cum sederit ([[glans]]), Liv. 38, 29: librato [[magis]] et [[certo]] ictu, [[violent]], [[powerful]], Tac. H. 2, 22: [[malleus]] [[dextra]] [[libratus]] ab aure, Ov. M. 2, 624: per [[nubes]] [[aquila]] librata volatu, Sil. 15, 429. —Comp.: libratior [[ictus]], Liv. 30, 10; cf. id. 42, 65.—Hence, * adv.: lībrātē, [[deliberately]]: aliquid eligere, Serv. Verg. A. 2, 713.