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who had fourteen collcagvi'-s joined with him in the fame 

 fuiiftiun. 



Under Tarquin the Proud, there were firft two magiftratcs 

 erefted to take care of the facrifices to be performed ; thefe 

 were called duumviri. Their number, at length, grew to ten, 

 and tlien they were called decem-viri. In the time of Cicero 

 it had reached to fifteen, when they ad'umed the name of 

 quindecimviri : and though their number grew to forty after- 

 ward, yet Servius obferves, on the fixth of the iEneid, that 

 their name never after changed, but th;;y Itill continued to be 

 called quindsciinviri. 



They were the perfons who examined the Sibyls' books, 

 and were the interpreters of them ; yet they never did this but 

 by exprefs order of the fenate, declared by a fenatus con- 

 fultum. They alfo prefided at the facrifices, and all other 

 extraordinary ceremonies of religion. 



On medals, a dolphin joined with a tripod marks the 

 priefthood of the quindecimviri ; who, to publini their 

 folemn facrifices, ufed on the eve of them to carry a dol- 

 phin at the end of a pole throughout the city ; that fifh 

 being efteemed facred to Apollo, as the crow was among 

 birds. 



QUINEPAUGE, or Eajl Rliwr, in Geogniphy, a river 

 of America, in Connecticut, which runs a foutherly courfe 

 into the N.E. corner of New Haven harbour. 



QUINGEY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in the dilf ridt of Be- 

 fangon ; nine miles y.W. of Befangon. The place contanis 

 1079, 2"^ ^'^^ canton 1 1,734 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 272^ kiliometres, in 36 communes. N. lat. 46° 6'. E. 



long' S° 57'- , . , , 



QUINGOMBO, in Botany, the name given by the peo- 

 ple of Congo to a fpecies of ketmia, dillinguiihcd by M. 

 Tourncfort by the name of the ketmia Brafilienfis folio ficus, 

 fruclu pyramidoto fulcato, the fig-leaved Brafilian ketmia, 

 with a pyramidal fulcated fruit. 



QUINISDAL, in Geography, a town of Norway, hi 

 the province of Chnllianfand ; 35 miles W.N.W. of Chrif- 

 tianfand. 



QUINI-SEXTUM, in Ecch/wfual Hijlory, denotes a 

 council held at Con.lantinople in the year 692 ; called alfo 

 the council in Trullo, and by the Greeks PentheSe, q. d. five- 

 f'xth ; as intimating that it was only a fupplement ot the 

 two preceding councils. Though, in propriety, Fleury ob- 

 ferves, it was a council itfelf. 



Marlhall obferves, that the fifth and fixth general councils 

 having made no canons relating to the external celebration 

 of divine worfiiip, the government of the church, and the 

 lives and manners of Chriftians, the Orientals judged it ne- 

 ceffary to fupply that defeft by this ; lo that the 102 canons 

 falfely attributed to thofe, were in reality made here. See 

 Trullum. 



QUINNET, in Mining, the name of a tool ufed in the 

 cleaving rocks by means of gunpowder. This is a fort of 

 wedge fitted to the flat fide of what is called the gun ; that 

 is, a cylindric piece of iron, only flattened in one part to 

 receive this, and drilled through. When a proper hole has 

 been made in the rock by the borer, the powder is put in, 

 and then the orifice being Hopped by the gun, and that 

 wedged in by this quinnet, the powder being fired by a train 

 communicating with the hole drilled through the guns, exerts 

 all its force on the rock, and fplits it m feveral direftions at 

 one explofion. Phil. Tranf. N° 167. 



QUINOLA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province o Cuhacan ; ^o miles S.E. of Culiacan. 



QLINQUAGENARIUS, among the Romans, was an 



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officc-r in the army, who had the command of a company cf 

 fifty men. 



QuiKQUAGEXARius was alfo an officer of policy, who had 

 the infprc'tion of fifty houfes, or families. 



And in the ancient nionafteries, quinquagenarius was a 

 fuperior who had fifty monks under his guidance. 



QUINQUAGESIMA-SUNDAY, Siikove-Sundav. 

 It is thus called, as being about the fiftieth day before Eallc-r. 

 Anciently they ufed Quinquagefima for Wiiitfunday, and 

 for the fifty days betwen Ealler and Whitfunday ; but to 

 dillinguifh this Quinquagefima from that before Ealler, it 

 was called the Pafchal Quinquagefima. 



QUINQUANGULAR Leaf. See Lkaf. 



QUINQUANNION, QuiNCiUEXNiu.M, in the French 

 Cujloms, a refpite of five years, which infolvent debtors for. 

 merly obtained by virtue of the king's letters, to have time 

 for the paym.ent of their debts. 



When the thing intended was only to prevent the fale of 

 their effects at an under-value, the term of one year was 

 ordinarily granted, and this was called the benefit of 

 annion. 



But when the debtor would avoid the furrendering of 

 his effedls, upon proving that he was reduced by poverty, 

 lofles, &c. to make ufe of this expedient, the term of five 

 years was granted, and called the benefit of quinquannion, 



QUINQUATRIA, m ylntiquily, a name given to the 

 feaits of Minerva, othcrvvife called Panathenaea. 



Some thmk they were termed quinquatria, becaufe they 

 lafled five days ; but others, with more reafon, think it 

 was becaufe they fell out five days after the ides of the 

 month. 



QUINQUE PoRTUs, the five cinque ports. 



" Servitium quod barones quinque portuum praefcripto- 

 rum recognofcunt facere ad fummonitionem regis per annum, 

 fi coi'.tigerit per 15 dies ad cuftum eorum proprium ; ita 

 quod primus dies computatur a die quo vela navium ercxe- 

 runt, ufque partes ad quas tendere debent, vel ulterius, 

 quamdiu rex voluerit ad cultum ejus," Thorn. 



QUINQUEFOLIUM, in Botany, Cinquefoil, the old 

 name of the Linna:an genus Poter.tilla, many, but by no 

 means a majority, of whofe fpecies have five leaflets on a 

 flalk. G^ertner, who, like many others, was difcontented 

 with Pctentilla, fubllituted the word Fentaphyllum. See 



POTENTILLA. 



QUINQUEMPOIX, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Lower Seine ; feven miles N. of 

 Rouen. 



QUINQUENNALIA, in Jmiquity, games, or feafls 

 founded at Tyre, celebrated every five years, in honour of 

 the deified emperors. 



The quinquennalia began to be exprefl'ed on m.edals 

 about the middle of the third century-. F. P^gi produces a 

 medal whereon are engraven thofe of the emperor Poflhu- 

 mus ; they are not found on any medals of his prede- 

 celfors. 



QUINQUENNALIS, a magiftrate in the colonies, and 

 municipal cities of the Roman commonwealth ; much the 

 fame with xdile at Rome. 



They were not thus called from their continuing in their 

 office five years ; but becnufe they were elefted every fifth 

 year, to piefide at the cenfus, and to receive the declaration 

 each citizen made of his efleft s. 



QUINQUENNES, in fome old Hi/lorians, a name given 

 to a certain pc-ople ot Inciia, among whom the women began 

 to bear children at five years old, and feldom lived to more 

 than eight years. Pliny gives us this account ; and Solinus, 

 who repeats it from him, increafes the miracle by teUing us, 



that 



