Significatio vocis octo | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. eight; 8
   indeclinable
2. Equivalent to 'eight': Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“huic a stirpe pedes temo protentus in octo,”

then nigh the root / A pole eight feet projecting, earth-boards twain, / And share-beam with its double back they fix

“T. etiam Quintius Cincinnatus Praenestinos, qui usque ad urbis Romae portas cum bello⟳ venerant, persecutus ad flumen Alliam vicit, octo civitates, quae sub ipsis agebant, Romanis adiunxit, ipsum Praeneste adgressus in deditionem accepit.”

Titus Quintius Cincinnatus, also, having pursued the Praenestini, who had advanced in a hostile manner to the very gates of Rome, defeated them on the river Allia, annexing eight cities that were under their dominion to the Roman empire; and, attacking Praeneste itself, forced it to surrender.

“octo annorum erat Iosias cum regnare coepisset et triginta uno anno⟳ regnavit in Hierusalem”

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

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