I. Four each, by fours, four at a time: “quaternos denarios in singulas vini amphoras exegisse,” Cic. Font. 5, 9: “primam aciem quaternae cohortes ex V. legionibus tenebant,” i. e. four from each legion, Caes. B. C. 1, 83: “saepe tribus lectis videas cenare quaternos,” Hor. S. 1, 4, 86.—
II. Four together, four at once: “propter bis quaternas causas,” Varr. L. L. 5, 1, 6; Aus. ldyll. 10, 60; Sedul. 2, 175; Plin. 28, 6, 17, § 64.
