I.two years old, of two years, continuing two years: “nuces,” Cato, R. R. 17, 2; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 13: una veterana legio, altera bima, octo tironum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 3; so, “semen,” Plin. 18, 24, 54, § 195: “surculi,” id. 17, 14, 24, § 105: “plantae,” biennial, Pall. Febr. 25, 2: merum, * Hor. C. 1, 19, 15: “nix,” Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 16: “pensio,” Mart. 12, 32, 3: “honor,” Ov. P. 4, 9, 64: “aestimatio ususfructus,” Dig. 33, 2, 6: “si legatum sit relictum annua, bima, trima die, etc., i. e. solvendum intra annum, biennium, triennium, etc.,” ib. 33, 1, 3; cf. dies.—*
II. In epist. style, as an abbreviated expression: “bima sententia,” the vote concerning the continuance of a provincial government for two years, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 9.
