terni

terni, ae, a, num. distr. adj. [ter].

I.

Lit., three each:

ea partes habet novem discretas, ter ternas,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 12; so,

terni ter cyathi,

Hor. C. 3, 19, 14:

ut in jugera singula ternis medimnis decidere liceret,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 48, § 114; so id. Balb. 21, 48; Caes. B. G. 3, 15 al.:

ternae sunt utriusque partes,

Cic. Or. 60, 201:

muneraque in naves ternos optare juvencos,

Verg. A. 5, 247:

ternūm pedum longitudo,

Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 103:

ternūm digitorum,

id. 20, 17, 73, § 190:

cubitorum,

id. 25, 6, 30, § 66; also,

intervallo ternorum pedum,

id. 16, 36, 67, § 173:

pariunt terna ova,

Col. 8, 14, 5.—In sing.:

terno consurgunt ordine remi,

Verg. A. 5, 120:

te Gratia terna afflavit,

i. e. the three Graces, Claud. Laud. Seren. 88.—

II.

Transf., for tres, three:

quid ternas (litteras)?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 33:

tres equitum numero turmae ternique vagantur Ductores,

Verg. A. 5, 560:

saecula,

Tib. 4, 1, 112:

terna guttura monstri,

Ov. M. 10, 22:

immane est vitium, dare milia terna macello,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 76:

ter terna, quae sunt novem,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6.