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quincunx . uncis, m. quinque-uncia,
I.fire twelfths of a whole (of an as, a jugerum, a pound, a sextarius, etc.).
I. Lit.: si de quincunce remota est Uncia, quid superat? from five twelfths of an as, Hor. A. P. 327; so five twelfths of a jugerum, Col. 5, 1, 11; of a pound, id. 12, 28, 1; of a sextarius, five cyathi. Mart. 1, 28, 2; 2, 1, 9: “quincunces et sex cyathos bessemque bibamus,id. 11, 36, 7.—Of five twelfths of an inheritance, Plin. Ep. 7, 11, 1.— “Of interest,five per cent., Pers. 5, 149.— “In apposition with usura: quincunces usuras spopondit,Dig. 46, 3, 102; Inscr. Giorn. Arcad. 28, p. 356.—
II. Transf., trees planted in the form of a quincunx (i.e. ?*!, the five spots on dice); also, trees planted in oblique lines, thus: “?*! quid illo quincunce speciosius, qui in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est?Quint. 8, 3, 9 Spald.: “in quincuncem serere,Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2; cf.: directi in quincuncem ordines, Cic. Sen. 17, 59: “in quincuncem disposita,Col. 3, 13, 4; 3, 15, 1: “obliquis ordinibus in quincuncem dispositis,Caes. B. G. 7, 73.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.73
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 327
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.11.1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.9
    • Persius, Saturae, 5
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.13.4
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.15.1
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.1.11
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