Meaning of tricennium | Babel Free

Definitions

A period of thirty years.

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“As early as the second decade after his entry into Italy Theodoric made all illegal or irregular acquisitions that had taken place⟳ prior to this fixed date⟳ [28 August 489] subject to the thirty-year statue of limitation (tricennium).”

“With a site I have⟳ been working with in Iceland, I am dealing with 30-year time units or tricennia, and even if it is no Pompeii, there are still features that we know⟳ represented much shorter time scales—the construction of a fireplace that could have⟳ been accomplished in a day, the placing of a coin under a timber sill beam that only took a few seconds.”

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