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sescuncia

sescuncia · f

one and a half

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Where it lives

Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

sescuncĭa — Lewis & Short

sescuncĭa (SESCONCIA, ae, f.sesqui-uncia,

Inscr. Orell. 4563),

I one and a half unciae, i.e. a twelfth and a half, = one eighth of a whole, Plin. 36, 25, 62, § 187; Cels. 5, 18, 28; Col. 12, 59, 4; Scrib. Larg. 50; 60; Front. Aquaed. 26; Dig. 37, 8, 7 fin.—As adj.: copulae sescunciae, an inch and a half thick, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 11; cf. the foll. art.

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