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quinquennalis

quinquennalis · adj

That takes place every fifth year

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

quinquennālis — Lewis & Short

quinquennālis, e, adj.quinquennis.

I That takes place every fifth year, quinquennial: quinquennalis celebritas ludorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 32, 127: certamen, Suet. Ner. 12: ludicrum, Tac. A. 14, 20: vota, Liv. 31, 9: agon, Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 18.—

B Subst.: quinquennālĭa, ĭum, n., games celebrated every fifth year: NERONIS, Inscr. Grut. 116, 3.—

II Continuing five years, quinquennial: censura, Liv. 4, 24: magistratus quinquennalis, the office of a quinquennal, App. M. 10, p. 247, 25; cf. quinquennalitas.—

B Subst.: quinquennā-lis, is, m., a magistrate in the municipal towns who held his office five years, a quinquennal, Spart. Hadr. 19: decurionum quinquennales, App. M. 11, p. 273; cf. Spart. Hadr. 19; Cod. Th. 13, 3, 1.

In the wild

quinquennales Suetonius, Divus Augustus 59.1
quinquennales Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.75.2
quinquennales Suetonius, Divus Augustus 18.2

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