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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.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 12.25.1
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.16.1
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 6.21
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.185
    • Cicero, On Pompey's Command, 3.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 47.2
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    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.34
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.51
    • Plautus, Captivi, 5.3
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 47
    • Cornelius Nepos, Lysander, 1.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.5
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.14.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 43, 2
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.31
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.1.10
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