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|lshtext=<b>dĕcĭmus</b>: or dĕcŭmus (the [[latter]] form prevailed in the [[later]] [[law]] lang.; [[hence]], [[decumanus]]), a, um, adj. [[decem]] [[with]] superl. [[ending]],<br /><b>I</b> the [[tenth]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: [[mensis]], Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 19; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 29: [[legio]], Caes. B. G. 1, 40; cf. ib. 41; 42 al.: [[decima]] [[hora]], Cic. Phil. 2, 31; and [[without]] [[hora]], Auct. Her. 4, 51: [[annus]], Verg. A. 9, 155: septuma ([[dies]]) [[post]] decumam, i. e. the seventeenth, id. G. 1, 284 Voss.: cum decumo efficit [[ager]], i. e. [[tenfold]], Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 112; so, extulisset, ib. § 113.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> dĕcĭmum, adv. ([[like]] [[tertium]], [[quartum]], etc.; cf. Gell. 10, 1), for the [[tenth]] [[time]], Liv. 6, 40.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Subst.: dĕcĭma (dĕcŭma), ae, f. (sc. [[pars]]), the [[tenth]] [[part]], [[tithe]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As an [[offering]]: testatur [[Terentius]] [[Varro]] ... majores solitos decimam Herculi vovere, Macr. S. 3, 12; so Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.; Just. 18, 7, 7; cf. [[with]] [[pars]]; Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P.; Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 80: [[tibi]] (sc. Pythico Apollini) [[hinc]] decumam partem praedae [[voveo]], Liv. 5, 21; cf.: cum vovissent Apollini decumas praedae, Just. 20, 3, 3; cf. id. 18, 7, 7; Vulg. Gen. 14, 20; so esp. of the tithes given by the Hebrews to [[support]] the [[priesthood]], id. Num. 18, 21 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[largess]] [[openly]] bestowed by [[public]] men on the [[people]]: Oresti [[nuper]] prandia in semitis decumae nomine magno honori fuerunt, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58; so Suet. Calig. 26; id. Galb. 15; Tac. H. 1, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[tithe]], as a [[tax]] on landholders in the provinces, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 10, § 25; [[more]] freq. in plur., id. ib. 2, 3, 39, § 89 sq.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[tithe]], as conveyed by [[last]] [[will]]: decimas uxoribus dari, Trach. ap. Quint. 8, 5, 19.<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]. ([[like]] [[decem]], [[decies]], etc.), [[considerable]], [[large]], [[immense]] ([[poet]].): vastius insurgens decimae ruit [[impetus]] undae, Ov. M. 11, 530 (cf.: [[decimanus]], no. II., and in Gr. [[τρικυμία]]); so of billows, Sil. 14, 122; Luc. 5, 672; Val. Fl. 2, 54 ([[decimus]] by circumlocut.: qui venit hic [[fluctus]], [[fluctus]] supereminet omnes; [[posterior]] [[nono]] est undecimoque [[prior]], Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 50).