I. Of a foot and a half; one foot and a half in length, breadth, or diameter, Cato, R. R. 15, 2: “tigna,” Caes. B. G. 4, 17: “talea,” Col. 5, 9, 3: “mensura,” id. 9, 15, 4; 11, 2, 18; 11, 3, 48; Vitr. 5, 10; 10, 15, 4.—
II. Poet. transf., to denote excessive length, half a yard long: “dentes,” Cat. 97, 5: “verba,” Hor. A. P. 97; Mart. 7, 14, 10.