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quadruplus

quadruplus · adj

fourfold

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quā^drŭplus — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭplus (quā^drŭpŭlus, a, um, adj.quattuor,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 49 Fleck.),
I fourfold, quadruple (rare as adj.): strena, Suet. Tib. 34: numerus, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 19, 21; 2, 1, 19.— Subst.: quā^drŭplum, i, n., a fourfold amount, four times as much, quadruple (class.): furem dupli condemnari, feneratorem quadrupli, to a fourfold penalty, Cato, R. R. prooem.: judicium in aratorem in quadruplum dare, to sentence the cultivator, who did not deliver the quantity of grain fixed by law, to pay four times as much, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 13, § 34; Plin. Pan. 40: elephanto pulmo quadruplo major bubulo, four times as large, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 203: actio quadrupli, Dig. 4, 2, 14; 2, 8, 5; Gai. Inst. 3, 192; 4, 4: in quadruplum damnari, Dig. 48, 13, 13: si quid aliquem defraudavi reddo quadruplum, Vulg. Luc. 19, 8.

In the wild

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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