scale
scale
subs.
Ar. λεπί̆ς, ἡ (used of fish scales in Hdt.).
In a scale, in order: P. and V. ἐφεξῆς.
Of a balance: Ar. and P. πλάστιγξ, ἡ.
Pair of scales: Ar. and V. τά̆λαντον, τό, σταθμός, ὁ, P. ζυγόν, τό, Ar. and P. τρῡτά̆νη, ἡ.
Turn of the scale, met.: P. and V. ῥοπή, ἡ.
It is right to put our devotion in the past in the scale against our present sin, if after all it has been a sin: P. δίκαιον ἡμῶν τῆς νῦν ἁμαρτίας, εἰ ἄρα ἡμάρτηται, ἀντιθεῖναι τὴν τότε προθυμίαν (Thuc. 3.56).
When you throw money into one side of the scale it at once carries with it and weighs down the judgment to its own side: P. ὅταν ἐπὶ θάτερα ὥσπερ εἰς τρυτάνην ἀργύριον προσενέγκῃς οἴχεται φέρον καὶ καθείλκυκε τὸν λογισμὸν ἐφʼ αὑτό (Dem. 60).
That he may not strengthen either party by throwing his weight into the scale: P. ὅπως μηδετέρους προσθέμενος ἰσχυροτέρους ποιήσῃ (Thuc. 8.87).
You throw in a weight too small to turn the scale in favour of your friends: V. σμικρὸν τὸ σὸν σήκωμα προστίθης φίλοις (Eur. Her. 690).
subs.
Ar. λεπί̆ς, ἡ (used of fish scales in Hdt.).
In a scale, in order: P. and V. ἐφεξῆς.
Of a balance: Ar. and P. πλάστιγξ, ἡ.
Pair of scales: Ar. and V. τά̆λαντον, τό, σταθμός, ὁ, P. ζυγόν, τό, Ar. and P. τρῡτά̆νη, ἡ.
Turn of the scale, met.: P. and V. ῥοπή, ἡ.
It is right to put our devotion in the past in the scale against our present sin, if after all it has been a sin: P. δίκαιον ἡμῶν τῆς νῦν ἁμαρτίας, εἰ ἄρα ἡμάρτηται, ἀντιθεῖναι τὴν τότε προθυμίαν (Thuc. 3.56).
When you throw money into one side of the scale it at once carries with it and weighs down the judgment to its own side: P. ὅταν ἐπὶ θάτερα ὥσπερ εἰς τρυτάνην ἀργύριον προσενέγκῃς οἴχεται φέρον καὶ καθείλκυκε τὸν λογισμὸν ἐφʼ αὑτό (Dem. 60).
That he may not strengthen either party by throwing his weight into the scale: P. ὅπως μηδετέρους προσθέμενος ἰσχυροτέρους ποιήσῃ (Thuc. 8.87).
You throw in a weight too small to turn the scale in favour of your friends: V. σμικρὸν τὸ σὸν σήκωμα προστίθης φίλοις (Eur. Her. 690).
scale
v. trans.
Weigh: Ar. and P. ἱστά̆ναι; see weigh.
Scale down: see reduce.
Climb: P. and V. ὑ̆περβαίνειν, ἐπῐβαίνειν (gen.), ἐπεμβαίνειν, (dat. or ἐπί̆ acc.) (Plat.), Ar. ἐπᾰνᾰβαίνειν, ἐπῐ (acc.).
v. trans.
Weigh: Ar. and P. ἱστά̆ναι; see weigh.
Scale down: see reduce.
Climb: P. and V. ὑ̆περβαίνειν, ἐπῐβαίνειν (gen.), ἐπεμβαίνειν, (dat. or ἐπί̆ acc.) (Plat.), Ar. ἐπᾰνᾰβαίνειν, ἐπῐ (acc.).
SCALE
s. Of a balance lanx: scales trutina (τρυτάνη: PROP. the hole in which the tongue of the balance plays; then general term for balance: trutinae quae staterae dicuntur Vitr. 10 3 8 4): libra (a pair of scales): statera (mostly steelyard; seldom pair of scales): to weigh in a scale pendere; trutinā examinare (Cic. De Or. 2 38 159). Not to weigh in too nice a scale non aurificis statera sed populari trutinā examinare: to hold the scale even binas lances aequato examine sustinere (Verg. PROP.); aequabilem juris rationem tenere (Cic. figuratively). The scale turns [Vid: TURN].
A thin lamina squama (as of a fish): covered with scales squamis obductus or intectus; squamosus: to take off scales from fish pisces desquamare.
s. Of a balance lanx: scales trutina (τρυτάνη: PROP. the hole in which the tongue of the balance plays; then general term for balance: trutinae quae staterae dicuntur Vitr. 10 3 8 4): libra (a pair of scales): statera (mostly steelyard; seldom pair of scales): to weigh in a scale pendere; trutinā examinare (Cic. De Or. 2 38 159). Not to weigh in too nice a scale non aurificis statera sed populari trutinā examinare: to hold the scale even binas lances aequato examine sustinere (Verg. PROP.); aequabilem juris rationem tenere (Cic. figuratively). The scale turns [Vid: TURN].
A thin lamina squama (as of a fish): covered with scales squamis obductus or intectus; squamosus: to take off scales from fish pisces desquamare.
v. Transitively To strip off scales desquamare (general term); or desquamare pisces (fishes).
To pare the surface from summum corticem desquamare (of the bark of a tree); also decorticare arborem or corticem arbori in orbem detrahere (all round).
To climb as by ladders [Vid: to CLIMB]. to scale the wall scalas moenibus applicare or admovere (to put the scaling-ladders to the wall): scalis muros adoriri (to attack it): scalas erigi jubere (to order the scaling-ladders to be used): murum or in murum ascendere: in murum (muros) in moenia evadere (of the enemy but also of the inhabitants of a town): impetu facto urbem scalis capere (to take by scaling): to endeavor to scale ascensum urbis scalis tentare.
Intransitively To pare off desquamari (of bodies covered with scales): squamulae ex cute decedunt or a cute resolvuntur; squamae a cute recedunt or ex cute secedunt (relating to the skin); also *furfures cutis abscedunt.
To pare the surface from summum corticem desquamare (of the bark of a tree); also decorticare arborem or corticem arbori in orbem detrahere (all round).
To climb as by ladders [Vid: to CLIMB]. to scale the wall scalas moenibus applicare or admovere (to put the scaling-ladders to the wall): scalis muros adoriri (to attack it): scalas erigi jubere (to order the scaling-ladders to be used): murum or in murum ascendere: in murum (muros) in moenia evadere (of the enemy but also of the inhabitants of a town): impetu facto urbem scalis capere (to take by scaling): to endeavor to scale ascensum urbis scalis tentare.
Intransitively To pare off desquamari (of bodies covered with scales): squamulae ex cute decedunt or a cute resolvuntur; squamae a cute recedunt or ex cute secedunt (relating to the skin); also *furfures cutis abscedunt.
scale (subs.):
I. The dish of a balance: lanx, cis, f. (with dimin. lancula, Vitr. 10, 8, 4: Varr.): to depress the s., l. deprimere, Cic. Acad. 2, 12, 37: to put the possessions of the body into one s., those of the soul into the other, in alteram l. animi bona imponere, in alteram corporis, id. Tusc. 5, 17, 51. A pair of s.s, lībra, trŭtĭna: v.BALANCE . The Scales (a constellation), Libra, Manil.: a balance with its two s.s, libra bilanx, Mart. Cap.
II. A thin plate: natural or arti-*ficial:
1. squāma: covered with s.s (as fishes), squamis obductus, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121: applied to scale-armour, Virg. Aen. 11, 771: to s.s of metal struck off by the hammer, Plin. 34, 11, 24 (q. v.). Dimin., squāmŭla: small s.s fall from the surface of the skin, s. ex summa cute decidunt, Cels. 5, 28, 17.
2. lāmĭna (also contr. lamna, Hor.; a thin plate of metal): defensive armour made of iron s.s, tegumen ferreis l. consertum, Tac. H. 1, 79. Phr.: a coat of scale-armour, cataphractes, ib.: fir-cones closely compacted like s.s, nucamenta squamatim compacta, Plin. 16, 10, 19, ad fin.
III. Regular gradation: expr. by grădus in pl.: the s. of human society, g. societatis humanae, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 53: v.GRADATION .
IV. Standard of proportion: nearest word mŏdŭlus (cf. Suet. Ner. 49): maps on a larger s., *tabulae ampliore modulo descriptae: sometimes also merely expr. by adj. of size; a war on a grander s., majus bellum, Liv. 21, 2. Phr.: a covered passage almost on the s. of a public building, cryptoporticus prope publici operis instar, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 16: there was never an engagement on a vaster s., non alias majore mole concursum, Tac. A. 2, 46.
V. A graduated instrument: *scāla (geometrica, etc.): (Kr.): v.MEASURE .
VI. In music, diagramma, ătis, n.: Vitr. 5, 4, 1: the s. from base to treble, scansio sonorum, id. 6, 1, 6: also, octăchordum (a system of 8 notes), Boëth. Miss. 5, 14; *scala, Kircher, Musurg. vol. i. p. 214 (Rome. 1650). Phr.: to run down the s., vocem ab acutissimo sono usque ad gravissimum sonum recipere, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251: (cf. omnes sonorum gradus persequi, id. Or. 18, 59). (N.B.--As the ancient system of music differed fundamentally from the modern, it is impossible to expr. in class. lang. a major or minor s. [*scala major, minor, quam vocant]: these terms are however used: a chromatic s., chroma; a diatonic s., diatonum; an enharmonic s., enharmonicum, Boëth. On the whole subj., v. Dict. Ant. art. "Music.")
I. The dish of a balance: lanx, cis, f. (with dimin. lancula, Vitr. 10, 8, 4: Varr.): to depress the s., l. deprimere, Cic. Acad. 2, 12, 37: to put the possessions of the body into one s., those of the soul into the other, in alteram l. animi bona imponere, in alteram corporis, id. Tusc. 5, 17, 51. A pair of s.s, lībra, trŭtĭna: v.
II. A thin plate: natural or arti-*ficial:
1. squāma: covered with s.s (
2. lāmĭna (also contr. lamna, Hor.; a thin plate of metal): defensive armour made of iron s.s, tegumen ferreis l. consertum, Tac. H. 1, 79. Phr.: a coat of scale-armour, cataphractes, ib.: fir-cones closely compacted like s.s, nucamenta squamatim compacta, Plin. 16, 10, 19, ad fin.
III. Regular gradation: expr. by grădus in pl.: the s. of human society, g. societatis humanae, Cic. Off. 1, 17, 53: v.
IV. Standard of proportion: nearest word mŏdŭlus (cf. Suet. Ner. 49): maps on a larger s., *tabulae ampliore modulo descriptae: sometimes also merely expr. by adj. of size; a war on a grander s., majus bellum, Liv. 21, 2. Phr.: a covered passage almost on the s. of a public building, cryptoporticus prope publici operis instar, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 16: there was never an engagement on a vaster s., non alias majore mole concursum, Tac. A. 2, 46.
V. A graduated instrument: *scāla (geometrica, etc.): (Kr.): v.
VI. In music, diagramma, ătis, n.: Vitr. 5, 4, 1: the s. from base to treble, scansio sonorum, id. 6, 1, 6: also, octăchordum (a system of 8 notes), Boëth. Miss. 5, 14; *scala, Kircher, Musurg. vol. i. p. 214 (Rome. 1650). Phr.: to run down the s., vocem ab acutissimo sono usque ad gravissimum sonum recipere, Cic. de Or. 1, 59, 251: (cf. omnes sonorum gradus persequi, id. Or. 18, 59). (N.B.--As the ancient system of music differed fundamentally from the modern, it is impossible to expr. in class. lang. a major or minor s. [*scala major, minor, quam vocant]: these terms are however used: a chromatic s., chroma; a diatonic s., diatonum; an enharmonic s., enharmonicum, Boëth. On the whole subj., v. Dict. Ant. art. "Music.")
scale (v.):
I. To take off the scales: desquāmo, 1: to s. fish, d. pisces, Pl. Aul. 2, 9, 1.
II. To climb by ladders: expr. by phr. with scālae, arum: to s. a rampart, vallum scalis ascendere, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: to s. the walls, s. positis muros ascendere, id. B. C. 1, 48: scalis scandere muros, in muros evadere, Liv. 29, 7: to take a town by s.ing the walls, oppidum scalis capere, id. 8, 29, ad fin.: v.ESCALADE : a machine for s.ing the walls, ascendens machina, Vitr. 10, 13 (19), 3.
I. To take off the scales: desquāmo, 1: to s. fish, d. pisces, Pl. Aul. 2, 9, 1.
II. To climb by ladders: expr. by phr. with scālae, arum: to s. a rampart, vallum scalis ascendere, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: to s. the walls, s. positis muros ascendere, id. B. C. 1, 48: scalis scandere muros, in muros evadere, Liv. 29, 7: to take a town by s.ing the walls, oppidum scalis capere, id. 8, 29, ad fin.: v.
τάλαντον
τάλαντον, balance, weighing scale; unit of weight (talent), and hence a sum of money (gold or...
ὑπερβαίνω
to step over, mount, scale
that which is peeled off, peel, husk, skin, scale
λέπος
rind, husk, scale
λεπίς
a scale, husk
λοπίς
shell, flake, scale
πλάστιγξ
the scale of a balance
ἰχθυήματα
fish-scales
τάλαντον, balance, weighing scale; unit of weight (talent), and hence a sum of money (gold or...
ὑπερβαίνω
to step over, mount, scale
appearing fewer than 50 times
λέμμαthat which is peeled off, peel, husk, skin, scale
λέπος
rind, husk, scale
λεπίς
a scale, husk
λοπίς
shell, flake, scale
πλάστιγξ
the scale of a balance
ἰχθυήματα
fish-scales
scale
On measured drawings a bar scale graphically represents the amount of reduction or enlargement a drawing has undergone.
Description: A written scale --"One centimeter equals one meter", or "1cm.:1m."-- can not and does not grow and shrink proportionally with the drawing if the drawing is further reduced or enlarged. For this reason a bar scale is preferable for and used in measured drawings.
Scale
See libra; trutina.