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quartanus

quartanus · adj

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

quartānus — Lewis & Short

quartānus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to the fourth; esp.,

I Of or occurring on the fourth day, quartan: febris, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24; Plin. 7, 50, 51, § 166; Mart. 10, 77, 3.— Hence, as subst.: quar-tāna, ae, f. (sc. febris), an ague occurring every fourth day, a quartan ague (class.): in quartanam conversa vis est morbi, Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 1; cf. Cels. 2, 1, 20; Plin. 22, 25, 72, § 150: frigida, Hor. S. 2, 3, 290.—

II Of or belonging to the fourth legion; plur. as subst.: quartāni, m., the soldiers of the fourth legion, Tac. H. 4, 37; Inscr. Orell. 3118.

In the wild

quartanorum Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 6
quartanique Tacitus, Historiae 4.39

Where it came from

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