aestumo

• æstumō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈae̯s.tʊ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛs.t̪u.mo]

aestumō (present infinitive aestumāre, perfect active aestumāvī, supine aestumātum); first conjugation

1. Old Latin form of aestimō
   • c. 42 BCE, Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 2:

     Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri fuit. Eorum ego vitam mortemque iuxta aestumo, quoniam de utraque siletur.

     • 1931 translation by John Carew Rolfe

       Success in agriculture, navigation, and architecture depends invariably upon mental excellence. Yet many men, being slaves to appetite and sleep, have passed through life untaught and untrained, like mere wayfarers in these men we see, contrary to Nature’s intent, the body a source of pleasure, the soul a burden. For my own part, I consider the lives and deaths of such men as about alike, since no record is made of either.

• aestimō
• abaestumō