The corpus record — Latin

quadrivium

quadrivium · n

a place where four ways meet

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

What it meant

quā^drĭvĭum — Lewis & Short

quā^drĭvĭum, ii, n.quattuor-via.

I Lit., a place where four ways meet, a crossway, cross-road: in quadriviis et angiportis, Cat. 58, 4; so Juv. 1, 63: DII, the tutelar gods of cross-roads, Inscr. Grut. 84, 5; 1015, 1; Inscr. Rein. col. 1, n. 14.—

II Transf., the assemblage of the four mathematical sciences (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy), Boëth. Arithmet. 1, 1.

In the wild

quadriviis Catullus, Carmina lyrics.58.4
quadriviis Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.865

Where it came from

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