πεμπταῖος
α, ον
A.
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.).