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quincunx. uncis, m. [quinque-uncia], fire twelfths of a whole (of an as, a jugerum, a pound, a sextarius, etc.).I.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:II.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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