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tertĭus , a, um,
I.num. ord. adj. [ter], the third.
I. Adj.: “vos duo eritis, atque amica tua erit tecum tertia,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 66: “tres video sententias ferri: unam, etc. ... alteram, etc. ... tertiam ut, etc.,Cic. Lael. 16, 56; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 26: “sic disserunt: si quod sit in obscenitate flagitium, id aut in re esse aut in verbo: nihil esse tertium,Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1; cf. id. Phil. 2, 13, 31: “annus,id. Rep. 2, 37, 62: “tertio illo anno,id. ib. 3, 32, 44: “mancipia venibant Saturnalibus tertiis,” i.e. on the third day of the Saturnalia, id. Att. 5, 20, 5: “ab Jove tertius Ajax,the third in descent, greatgrandson of Jupiter, Ov. M. 13, 28: “per tertia numina juro,” i.e. by the infernal gods, id. Tr. 2, 53: “regna,the infernal regions, id. F. 4, 584: “tertius e nobis,” i.e. one of us three, id. M. 14, 237: “tertios creari (censores),Liv. 6, 27, 5: “tertius dies est,it is two days since, Plin. Ep. 4, 27, 1: “syllaba ab tertia,Quint. 1, 5, 30: “diebus tertiis,every three days, Gell. 9, 4, 7. —
II. Substt.
A. tertĭae , ārum, f. (sc. partes).
2. The third part in a play: “Spinther secundarum, tertiarumque Pamphilus,Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 54. —
B. Tertĭus , ii, m., and Tertĭa , ae, f., proper names. The latter in a sarcastic pun: Tertiā deductā (after a third was deducted, or after Tertia was seduced), Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 2; Suet. Caes. 50.—Adv.
A. tertĭō .
1. For the third time: “non hercle veniam tertio,Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 24: “ille iterum, ille tertio pecuniam dedit,Cic. Deiot. 5, 14: “sanguis mittendus est iterum tertioque,Cels. 4, 4, fin.: “cui ter proditae patriae: semel cum, etc. ... iterum cum, etc. ... tertio hodie, etc.,Liv. 23, 9, 11; tertio consules esse, Plin. Pan. 60, 5; cf. Gell. 10, 1.—*
2. In the third place, thirdly: “haec spectans, etc. ... simul, ut, etc. ... tertio, ut, etc.,Caes. B. C. 3, 43.—
3. Three times (post-class.): “parietes tertio obducere,Pall. 1, 11, 2; Treb. Gall. 17. —
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.22.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 5.20.5
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.1
    • Cicero, For King Deiotarius, 5.14
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.13.31
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.237
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.28
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.4
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 50
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.43
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.20
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.54
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.27.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 27.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 27.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 22.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 67.3
    • Cicero, De Republica, 2.37
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 16
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.59
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 5.30
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 9.4.7
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.1
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.4
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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