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admensus, a, um, Part. of admetior.

* ad-mĕo, āre, v. n., to go to or approach: admeabunt monstra natatu, Paul. Nol. 17, 119.

ad-mētĭor, mensus, 4, v. dep., to measure out to: vinum emptoribus, Cato, R. R. 154: frumentum alicui, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 31; so Suet. Aug. 41; Curt. 8, 12.
Pass.: quod (sc. vinum) admensum erit, measured out, Cato, R. R. 148.

Admētus, i, m.

  1. I. In mythology, a king of Pherœ, in Thessaly, the husband of Alcestis, whose sheep Apollo was condemned by Jupiter to tend for a long time, Serv. ad Verg. G. 3, 9; id. A. 7, 761 (cf. Alcestis).
  2. II. In hist., a king of the Molossi, the friend and protector of Themistocles, Nep. Them. 8.