QUARTER Copy link • QUARTER 1. A fourth part, quarta pars; quadrans (e.g., horae): quarter of a year, spatium trimestre: a year and a quarter, annus ac tres menses: every quarter, tertio quoque mense. Region of the skies, pars: nor could the wind blow from any quarter that, etc., neque ullus flare ventus poterat, quin, etc. (Caes., Herz., B.C., 3, 47). Particular region of a town or county, pars; vicus. Plual. Quarters, habitation, abode, habitatio (general term): tectum (house): hospitium (especially in the house of a friend): deversorium (at an inn): statio (baiting-house on the road, etc.); mansio (place of a night’s lodging). To take up one’s quarters with anybody, devertere ad aliquem tin hospitium): to have one’s quarters with, deversari apud aliquem; habitare apud aliquem; tecto receptum esse ab aliquo; uti alicujus hospitio: to pay for one’s quarters, pretium mansionis persolvere alicui (for the night’s lodging). (Of troops) summer, winter quarters, aestiva, hiberna, plur.: to station troops in winter-quarters, copias in hibernis collocare: to be in quarters, per hospitia dispositos esse; in oppido (oppidis) collocatos esse: troops in quarters, milites per hospitium dispositi (in respect of the soldiers): milites tecto (tectis) recepti (in respect of the host): to change soldiers’ quarters, *militum hospitia mutare; *milites in alia hospitia deducere (when they leave a town): to change anybody’s quarters, *in aliud hospitium traducere aliquem: to change one’s own quarters, in aliam domum immigrare. The grant of his life to a conquered enemy, missio: quarter! (as exclamation) parce or parcite vitae meae: to grant no quarter, nullius vitae parcere: quarter was neither asked nor qranted, sine missione pugnatum est (Flor.; sine missione also, Liv., 41, 20, of gladiators): to cry for quarters, rogare ut aliquis mihi parcat: to give quarter, vitae alicujus parcere; victo dare vitam. Close quarters, plur.: to come to close quarters, manum conserere; ad manum accedere: cominus pugnare (gladiis); cominus gladiis uti; manu decertare (all these = to fight close together, or to come to close quarters with the sword, after the commencement of the fight with javelins, arrows, etc.): inter se (collatis signis) concurrere; proelium committere (only of two hostile armies): (armis) congredi cum aliquo; manu confligere cum aliquo; ferrum et manus conferre cum aliquo; signa conferre cum aliquo (all; e.g., cum hostibus). Quarterdeck, perhaps *constratum navis posterius. Vid: DECK. 2. v. To divide into four parts, quadrifariam dividere or dispertiri: to quarter the body of a criminal, in quatuor partes distrahere (after Sen., De Ir., 3, 17, in.); corpus in diversa distrahere (Liv.). To station, put into quarters, collocare in loco or apud aliquem: to quarter soldiers, milites per hospitia disponere or in hospitia deducere (with the citizens): milites per oppida dispertire (to station in the different towns): to have soldiers quartered upon me, *milites meo hospitio utuntur: to have quartered one’s army in a town, exercitum in tectis habere: to quarter one’s self upon anybody (as a guest), devertere or deverti ad aliquem; alicujus hospitio uti.