I.fourfold, quadruple (rare as adj.): “strena,” Suet. Tib. 34: “numerus,” Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 19, 21; 2, 1, 19.— Subst.: quā^drŭplum , i, n., a fourfold amount, four times as much, quadruple (class.): furem dupli condemnari, feneratorem quadrupli, to a fourfold penalty, Cato, R. R. prooem.: “judicium in aratorem in quadruplum dare,” to sentence the cultivator, who did not deliver the quantity of grain fixed by law, to pay four times as much, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 13, § 34; Plin. Pan. 40: “elephanto pulmo quadruplo major bubulo,” four times as large, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 203: “actio quadrupli,” Dig. 4, 2, 14; 2, 8, 5; Gai. Inst. 3, 192; 4, 4: “in quadruplum damnari,” Dig. 48, 13, 13: “si quid aliquem defraudavi reddo quadruplum,” Vulg. Luc. 19, 8.
quā^drŭplus (quā^drŭpŭlus , Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 49 Fleck.), a, um, adj. quattuor,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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