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The corpus record — Latin

quadrantarius

quadrantarius · adj

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Where it lives

  • Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
  • Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
  • Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
  • Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

quā^drantārĭus, a, um, adj.id..

I Prop., of or belonging to a quarter, relating to a fourth part: in tabulis quadrantariis, quas ait ab Hirtuleio institutas, i. e. new accounts reducing all debts to one fourth, Cic. Font. 1, 2.—
II In partic., relating to a quarter of an as (as a coin), that costs a quarter of an as, etc.: res quadrantaria, i. e. a bath (because a quarter of an as was the price of a bath; v. quadrans, II. B), Sen. Ep. 86, 8: mulier, of Clodia, wife of Metellus, who sold herself for a bath, Cic. Cael. 26, 62; she is also called Clytaemnestra quadrantaria, because, like Clytaemnestra, she destroyed her husband, Cael. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 53.

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