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Definition of Quadrivia
1. quadrivium [n] - See also: quadrivium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadrivia
Literary usage of Quadrivia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"... per trivia earn vel quadrivia vocabat clamoribus. Unde permansit in eius sacris
ut certis diebus per ... 26 consuetudo fuerat ut per trivia et quadrivia ..."
2. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"... per trivia earn vel quadrivia vocabat clamoribus. Unde permansit in eius sacris
ut certis diebus per compita a ..."
3. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"1. compita . . . quadrivia. — 416. The letters are very indistinct, but the gloss
evidently = 434. — 418. 1. commenta. — 424. Cf. 407. ..."
4. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1920)
"... posuere," which runs as follows: "Pagos et compita circum, id est per
quadrivia—quae compita appellantur ab eo quod multae viae in unum ..."
5. Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds by Herbert Arthur Evans, Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (1905)
"Here, in addition to the ancient Trivia and quadrivia, or its modem representatives,
youth is taught the elements of all the sciences subservient to the ..."
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