Please help with Latin translation.

[KidCharlemagne]

OMNIA CUMPONDERE NUMERO & MENSURA is on a copper Roman token. Anyone know what it means. I’ve looked up each word but can’t quite put it together. I also can’t find “cumpondere” and wonder if it’s “cum pondere” but the words do look pretty close together. Any help appreciated. Thanks…

[CBCD]

I believe it means ‘Measure once and cuss twice.’

[Kimstu]

More or less “To compare/weigh together all things by number and measure”.

I think.

[lno]

Interesting question.

A little creative Googling led to a book of the Apocrypha, The Wisdom of Solomon, chapter 11 verse 21 of the Vulgate of St Jerome:

sed et sine his uno spiritu occidi poterant persecutionem passi ab ipsis factis suis et dispersi per spiritum virtutis tuae sed omnia mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti

Which from the King James version, translates to:

Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.

It seems likely to me that your coin is intended to read ‘cum pondere’. I wonder when that coin was struck, and whether it is a Biblical reference, or if both of these are referring to a widely-known quotation at the time.

[bibliophage]

The words pondus, mensura, and numerus together in any order and the appropriate grammatical case may have originated as a legal forumla. There is a Latin phrase which refers to fungible goods: quae pondere, numero, mensura consistunt (“in which weight, number, and measure correspond”) or quae pondere, numero, mensura constant (“about whose weight, number and measure everyone agrees”). For example, the jurist and legal commentator Gaius wrote

Re contrahitur obligatio uelut mutui datione; mutui autem datio proprie in his fere rebus contingit, quae res pondere, numero, mensura constant, qualis est pecunia numerata, uinum, oleum, frumentum, aes, argentum, aurum

which is translated as

An obligation by the delivery of property is contracted, for example, in the case of a loan for consumption. This generally takes place with reference to articles which are susceptible of being weighed, counted, or measured; such as money, wine, oil, grain, bronze, silver, and gold.

[KidCharlemagne]

@lno

Interesting question.

A little creative Googling led to a book of the Apocrypha, The Wisdom of Solomon, chapter 11 verse 21 of the Vulgate of St Jerome:Which from the King James version, translates to:It seems likely to me that your coin is intended to read ‘cum pondere’. I wonder when that coin was struck, and whether it is a Biblical reference, or if both of these are referring to a widely-known quotation at the time.

Thanks for the help. FWIW, the token is struck with an image of Fortuna so the likelihood of it being a Bibilical reference is probably close to nil.