πεμπτ-αῖος, α, ον, on the fifth day
, mostly agreeing with the Subject, π. ἱκόμεσθα on the fifth day
we came, Od.14.257, cf. Hp. Aph.4.36; π.γεγενημένος born five days before
, Pi.O.6.53; πεμπταῖα λογίζομαι ..γενέσθαι D.19.59; προκεῖσθαι π. to have been five days
laid out as dead, Ar. Av. 474; [νεκροὶ] ἤδη ἦσαν π. X.An.6.4.9; ἔκρινεν [ὁ πυρετὸς] πεμπταίοισι came to a crisis with those who had had it five days
, Hp.Epid. 1.20; π. ἀπὸ τῆς νίκης, ἐκ γενετῆς, Plu. Fab.17, Luc. Halc.5. II. every fifth day
, π. πυρετοί quintan
fevers, Hp. Epid.1.24, cf. Alex. Aphr.Pr.2.10; ποτισμοί POxy.729.24 (ii A.D.).