Quadruplus, pen. co. Adiectiuum. Plautus. Foure times double: foure times as muche.Quadruplum aliquid attribuere. Plin. Maiores nostri ita in legibus posuere, furem dupli condemnati, fœneratorem quadrupli. Cato. That a theefe was condenmed to pay double, an vsurer foure times so much. Dare iudicium in quadruplum. Ci. To condemue in foure times so much.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quādrŭplus (quādrŭpŭlus, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 49 Fleck.), a, um, adj. [quattuor], fourfold, quadruple (rare as adj.): strena, Suet. Tib. 34: numerus, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 19, 21; 2, 1, 19.— Subst.: quādrŭplum, i, n., a fourfold amount, four times as much, quadruple (class.): furem dupli condemnari, feneratorem quadrupli, to a fourfold penalty, Cato, R. R. prooem.: judicium in aratorem in quadruplum dare,
to sentence the cultivator
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who did not deliver the quantity of grain fixed by law
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to pay four times as much
, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 13, 34; Plin. Pan. 40: elephanto pulmo quadruplo major bubulo,