Dodrans, huius dodrantis, m. g. Varro. Nine ounces or inches, nine partes of 12. or 3 partes of 4.Dodrans agri.Liu.Three partes of a land diuided into foure.Dodrans ædificij reliquus. Cic Three partes remaining.Dodrante minor. Col. Not 9 inches long.Dodrans.Three partes of Sextarius. that is 9 Cyathi, or xviii. ounces.Dodrans vini.A pint and two ounces of wine, after Budey, after phisitians it is lesse than out pint.Ex dodrante vsura.Ofix in the hundred.Ex dodrãte hætedem facere.To make one heyre of al sauing the fourth part.Dodrantâlis & hoc dodrantâle, pe. pro Nine ounces or nine inthes in length.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dōdrans, antis, m., nine twelfths or three fourths of any thing (v. as, I.). 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.—II. Esp. (a). As a measure of length, nine inches, Plin. 36, 9, 14, 71; Suet. Aug. 79; Front. Aquaed. 65.— (b). As a measure of time, three quarters of an hour, Plin. 18, 25, 58, 219; 2, 14, 11, 58.
