Definition of quincunx
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LNS
quincunx, quincuncis
quinqueuncia
noun (m., 3rd pure I-stem declension)
  1. fire twelfths
  2. of a pound
  3. of a, five
  4. five twelfths of an inheritance
  5. trees planted in the form of a
  6. trees planted in oblique lines
Abbreviations
quincunx. uncis, m. quinque-uncia, fire twelfths of a whole (of an as, a jugerum, a pound, a sextarius, etc.). 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.

— 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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