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|lshtext=<b>quincunx</b>: uncis, m. [[quinque]]-[[uncia]],<br /><b>I</b> [[fire]] twelfths of a [[whole]] (of an as, a jugerum, a [[pound]], a [[sextarius]], etc.).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> 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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