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epitritos

epitritos · adj

containing four thirds

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ĕpī^trĭtos — Lewis & Short

ĕpī^trĭtos, a, um, adj., = e)pi/tritos,

I containing four thirds.

I In gen. (pure Lat. sesquitertius), in the relation of four to three, Gell. 18, 14, 5; Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 1, § 15 al.; cf. as fin.—

II Pes, a metrical foot, consisting of three long syllables and one short (a spondee with an iambus or trochee): ˘¯¯¯, ¯˘¯¯, ¯¯ ˘¯, ¯¯¯˘, Diom. p. 477 P. et saep.

In the wild

epitritos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.14.5
epitritos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.14.a

Where it came from

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