The corpus record — Latin

semipes

semipes · m

A half-foot

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Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-pēs — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-pēs, pĕdis, m.

I A half-foot, half a foot.

1 As a measure of length, Cato, R. R. 123; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 15: latum semipede, Vitr. 2, 3: minimi semipedum mensura, Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 11: non altiores quino semipede, id. 17, 11, 16, § 80: intervallo duum pedum et semipedis, id. 17, 20, 33, § 144.—

2 A half-foot in verse, Varr. ap. Gell. 18, 15, 2; Aus. Ep. 4, 86; Aug. de Musica, 5, 11.—

II Half-lame: crure trunco semipes, Prud. ste*f. 2, 150.

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