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vicesimus

ord. num. adj

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Where it lives

Lysander 1 · 18.52/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Noctes Atticae 20 · 1.79/10k
In L. Catilinam 2 · 1.59/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vīcēsĭmus — Lewis & Short

vīcēsĭmus or vīcensĭmus (collat. form vīgēsĭmus,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 21; Caes. B. C. 3, 34; Sall. C. 47, 2; Col. 5, 1, 10; Manil. 4, 462 al.; but not in Cic.), a, um,

I ord. num. adj. [viginti], the twentieth.

I Adj.: annus, Plaut. Capt. 5, 3, 3: intra annum vicesimum, Caes. B. G. 6, 21: annum jam tertium et vicesimum regnat, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7: censores vicesimi sexti a primis censoribus, Liv. 10, 47, 2: litteras mihi Cornificius altero vicesimo die reddidit, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 1: Acastus cum litteris praesto fuit uno et vicesimo die, id. ib. 14, 5: vicesimo die lunae, id. Fin. 2, 31, 101: vicesima luna sacrificant, Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 5: sexto et vicesimo anno, Nep. Lys. 1, 1: legio, Tac. A. 1, 51.—

II Subst.: vīcēnsĭ-ma (-suma), ae, f. (i. e. pars), the twentieth part, as a tax; so the twentieth part or five per cent. of the crop, Liv. 43, 2, 12 Weissenb. ad loc.; of the value of a slave that was manumitted, Cic. Att. 2, 16, 1; Liv. 7, 16, 7; Petr. 58; 71.—Called also VICESIMA LIBERTATIS, Inscr. Orell. 3131; 3338.—As exportduty: portorii, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 75, § 185.— As a tax on inheritances, Plin. Ep. 7, 14, 1; id. Pan. 37.

In the wild

vicensima Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.185
vicensimum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p15
vicesimo Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.7.4
vicensimum Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.9.3
vicesima Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.7.16.7
vicesimum Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 6.21.5

6 of 122 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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