Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Quincunx

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

QUINCUN'X. A copper coin of Roman currency, weighing five ounces (unciae), and equal in value to five twelfths of an As (Hor. A. P. 327.). It is distinguished by five balls to denote its value, of the same character as those which appear on the quadrans (woodcut s. v.); but the coin itself is of extreme rarity, and the British Museum does not possess a specimen.

2. A figure of things arranged in the same position (Quincunx/2.1) as the five points (puncta) are upon a die. Cic. Sen. 17. Caes. B. G. vii. 73.

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