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quā̆drantal, ālis, n. [quadrantalis].
- I. A liquid measure containing eight congii, a quadrantal, Cato ap. Fest. p. 258, 20 Müll.; id. R. R. 57, 2; Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 15; Plin. 14, 14, 16, § 95.
- II. A die, cube, Gell. 1, 20, 3.
quā̆drantālis, e, adj. [quadrans], containing the fourth part of a measure (postAug.): mensa crassitudine quadrantali, of a quarter of a foot, Plin. 13, 15, 29, § 93.
quā̆drantārĭus, a, um, adj. [quadrans].
- I. Prop., of or belonging to a quarter, relating to a fourth part: in tabulis quadrantariis, quas ait ab Hirtuleio institutas, i. e. new accounts reducing all debts to one fourth, Cic. Font. 1, 2.
- II. In partic., relating to a quarter of an as (as a coin), that costs a quarter of an as, etc.: res quadrantaria, i. e. a bath (because a quarter of an as was the price of a bath; v. quadrans, II. B), Sen. Ep. 86, 8: mulier, of Clodia, wife of Metellus, who sold herself for a bath, Cic. Cael. 26, 62; she is also called Clytaemnestra quadrantaria, because, like Clytaemnestra, she destroyed her husband, Cael. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 53.