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dōdra, ae, f. [dodrans], a drink composed of nine ingredients, Aus. Epigr. 86 and 87; called also: * dodralis potio, id. ib. 86 in lemm.

dōdrālis, e, v. the preced.

dōdrans, antis, m., nine twelfths or three fourths of any thing (v. as, I.).

  1. I. In gen.: alicujus aedificii reliquum dodrantem emere, Cic. Att. 1, 14 fin.; cf.: solvere dodrantem, Mart. 8, 9: heres ex dodrante, Nep. Att. 5, 2; Suet. Caes. 83: jugeri, Col. 5, 1, 11; Liv. 8, 11: operae, Col. 2, 4, 8: dodrantes semuncias horarum, Plin. 2, 14, 11, § 58: pondo dodrans, Scrib. Comp. 45 et saep.
  2. II. Esp.
          1. (α) As a measure of length, nine inches, Plin. 36, 9, 14, § 71; Suet. Aug. 79; Front. Aquaed. 65.
          2. (β) As a measure of time, three quarters of an hour, Plin. 18, 25, 58, § 219; 2, 14, 11, § 58.

dōdrantālis, e, adj. [dodrans], of nine inches: stirps, Col. 5, 6, 12: rami, Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 131: altitudo, Col. 11, 3, 44.

dōdrantārĭus, a, um, adj. [dodrans], of or belonging to a dodrans: tabulae, the debtbooks introduced in consequence of the lex Valeria feneratoria, Cic. Font. Fragm. 2 Niebuhr.