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bimestris

bimestris · adj

of two months

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 1 · 0.62/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bĭmestris — Lewis & Short

bĭmestris, e (poet. license, bimestre, adj.bis-mensis,

abl. regularly bimestri, Hor. C. 3, 17, 15; by Ov. F. 6, 158; cf. caelestis, perennis, etc.),

I of two months' duration, of two months (rare): consulatus, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 7: stipendium, Liv. 9, 43, 6: triticum, which may be reaped two months after sowing, Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 70: porcus, two months old, Hor. C. 3, 17, 15: porca, Ov. F. 6, 158.

In the wild

bimestre Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7.p12
bimestri Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 p43
bimestris Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.24.6

Where it came from

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