ex-sĕco

sectĭlĭs, e, adj. [seco].

Cut, cleft, divided, etc. (not ante-Aug.):

ebur,

Ov. Med. Fac. 10:

lamnae,

Plin. 16, 43, 83, § 226:

pavimenta,

made of small cut stones, mosaic, Vitr. 7, 1; Suet. Caes. 46 fin. —

That may be cut:

porrum,

cut-leek, chives, Juv. 3, 293; Mart. 10, 48, 9; Pall. Febr. 24, 11 (cf. sectivus):

lapides,

Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159:

medulla,

id. 16, 39, 76, § 195:

tuber,

id. 16, 43, 84, § 231.

sectūra, ae, f. [seco], a cutting (very rare).

Lit.:

scutum a secturā,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 115 Müll.:

callaides secturā formantur, alias fragiles,

Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 111.—

Transf.

A cut:

ut sectura inferior ponatur semper,

Plin. 17, 17, 28, § 124.—

The place where any thing is cut or dug, diggings, mines:

aerariae secturaeque,

Caes. B. G. 3, 21, 3 (al. structurae).

sectus, a, um, Part., from seco.

sectus, false reading, Mart. Cap. 1, § 25 Kopp ad loc.

sĕcūris, is (acc. securim, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 17; id. Men. 5, 2, 105; Cic. Mur. 24, 48; id. Planc. 29, 70; Verg. A. 2, 224; 11, 656; 696; Ov. M. 8, 397; Liv. 1, 40, 7; 3, 36, 4; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 201; cf. Gell. 13, 21, 6:

securem,

Liv. 3, 36, 4; 8, 7, 20; 9, 16, 17; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 123; Varr. ap. Non. p. 79; Val. Max. 1, 3, ext. 3; 3, 2, ext. 1; Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 29; Lact. Mort. Pers. 31, 2; Amm. 30, 8, 5; cf. Prisc. 758; abl. securi, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 25; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 7; 2, 1, 5, § 12; 2, 4, 64, § 144; 2, 5, 50, § 133; Verg. A. 6, 824; 7, 510; Cat. 17, 19; Ov. H. 16, 105; Liv. 2, 5, 8 et saep.:

secure,

App. M. 8, p. 216, 1; Tert. Pud. 16), f. [seco], an axe or hatchet with a broad edge (cf. bipennis).

In gen., as a domestic utensil, Cato, R. R. 10, 3; Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 17; id. Bacch. 5, 1, 31:

rustica,

Cat. 19, 3 al. —For felling trees, Cat. 17, 19; Verg. A. 6, 180; Ov. F. 4, 649; id. M. 9, 374; Hor. S. 1, 7, 27; Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188.—For hewing stones in the quarries, Stat. S. 2, 2, 87. —For fighting, a battle-axe, Verg. A. 11, 656; 11, 696; 12, 306; 7, 184; 7, 627; Hor. C. 4, 4, 20 al.:

anceps,

a two-edged axe, Ov. M. 8, 397 (just before, bipennifer).—For slaying animals for sacrifice, Hor. C. 3, 23, 12; Verg. A. 2, 224; Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 5; id. M. 12, 249.—As the cutting edge of a vine-dresser's bill, Col. 4, 25, 4 et saep.—

In partic.

Lit., an executioner ' s axe, for beheading criminals [p. 1656] (borne by the lictors in the fasces;

v. fascis): missi lictores ad sumendum supplicium nudatos virgis caedunt securique feriunt,

i. e. behead them, Liv. 2. 5; so,

securi ferire,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 75; Hirt. B. G. 8, 38 fin.:

percutere,

Cic. Pis. 34, 84; Sen. Ira, 2, 5, 5; Flor. 1, 9, 5:

strictae in principum colla secures,

id. 2, 5, 4:

necare,

Liv. 10, 9:

securibus cervices subicere,

Cic. Pis. 34, 83 (cf. infra, B.); id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22:

Publicola statim secures de fascibus demi jussit,

id. Rep. 2, 31, 55; cf. Lucr. 3, 996; 5, 1234:

nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 20:

saevumque securi Aspice Torquatum (as having caused his own son to be executed),

Verg. A. 6, 824.—Comically, in a double sense, acc. to I.:

te, cum securi, caudicali praeficio provinciae,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 25:

securis Tenedia,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 2; Front. ad M. Caes. 1, 9 init.; v. Tenedos.—

Trop.

A blow, death-blow, etc.:

graviorem rei publicae infligere securim,

to give a death-blow, Cic. Planc. 29, 70; cf.:

quam te securim putas injecisse petitioni tuae, cum? etc. (just before: plaga est injecta petitioni tuae),

id. Mur. 24, 48.—

With reference to the axe in the fasces, authority, dominion, sovereignty.

Usu. in plur.: Gallia securibus subjecta, perpetuā premitur servitute, i. e. to Roman supremacy, * Caes. B. G. 7, 77 fin.; cf.:

vacui a securibus et tributis,

Tac. A. 12, 34:

consulis inperium hic primus saevasque secures Accipiet,

Verg. A. 6, 819: Medus Albanas timet secures, i. e. the Roman authority or dominion, Hor. C. S. 54:

ostendam multa securibus recidenda,

Sen. Ep. 88, 38.—

In sing. ( poet.):

Germania colla Romanae praebens animosa securi,

Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 45.

segmentum, i, n. [seco], a cutting, cut; a piece cut off, a slice (not ante-Aug.; mostly in the plur.; syn.: fragmentum, frustum).

In gen.:

crassior harena laxioribus segmentis terit et plus erodit marmoris,

Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53; so,

segmenta percae,

Aus. Idyll. 10, 118.—

In partic.

A strip, zone, segment of the earth:

plura sunt haec segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere, Graeci parallelos,

Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 212:

quinto continentur segmento Bactra, Iberia, Armenia, etc.,

id. 6, 34, 39, § 216.—

In plur., strips of tinsel, brocade, etc., sewed around the bottom of a woman's dress; trimmings, bands, flounces, purfles, Ov. A. A. 3, 169:

segmenta et longos habitus et flammea sumit,

Juv. 2, 124:

aurea,

Val. Max. 5, 2, 1: crepitantia, Sed. Ep. 8, 6 med.

serra, ae, f. [perh. = sec - ra, seg - ra, from seco].

A saw, the invention of Daedalus, Ov. M. 8, 246; Sen. Ep. 90, 8; Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 198; Hyg. Fab. 274:

stridens,

Lucr. 2, 410:

stridor serrae,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116; Varr. ap. Non. 223, 19; Vitr. 2, 7:

arguta,

Verg. G. 1, 143 et saep.—Prov.:

serram ducere cum aliquo de aliquā re,

to quarrel with one about something, Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 1; so,

too, quamdiu per hanc lineam serram reciprocabimus?

Tert. Cor. Mil. 3.— Trop., of the back of a thin person, Mart. 11, 100, 4.—

Transf.

A kind of sawfish, Plin. 9, 2, 1, § 3; 32, 11, 53, § 145.—

A serrated order of battle:

serra proeliari dicitur, cum assidue acceditur recediturque neque ullo consistitur tempore. Cato de re militari: Sive opus est cuneo, aut globo, aut forcipe aut turribus aut serrā uti adoriare,

Fest. p. 344 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 9, 1; Veg. Mil. 3, 19 fin. —

A threshingwain, with serrated wheels, Hier. in Amos, 1; Vulg. lsa. 28, 27.—

Serra, in relig. lang., the name of the Tiber, acc. to Serv. Verg. A. 8, 63.

sexus, ūs ( abl. plur. sexibus, Spart. Hadr. 18, 10 al.;

but sexubus,

Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 1, 36), m., or sĕcus, indecl. n. [root sec- of seco; hence properly, a division, segment].

A sex, male or female (of men and beasts).

Form sexus:

hominum genus et in sexu consideratur, virile an muliebre sit,

Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; cf.:

natus ambiguo inter marem ac feminam sexu infans,

Liv. 27, 11; and: mare et femineum sexus, App de Mundo, c. 20, p. 66 med.:

feminarum sexus,

Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 175: virilis sexus, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 334 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 70 Rib.); Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 154 orbus virili sexu, Afran. ap. Fest. l. l. (Com. Rel. p. 166 Rib.):

liberi sexūs virilis,

Suet. Aug. 101; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6:

puberes virilis sexūs,

Liv. 26, 34:

tres (liberi) sexūs feminini,

Suet. Calig. 7; cf. Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 4; cf.:

juvenes utriusque sexūs,

Suet. Aug. 31:

liberi,

id. ib. 100; id. Vit. 6; id. Tib. 43:

sine ullo sexūs discrimine,

id. Calig. 8; Tac. A. 16, 10 fin. et saep.— Plur.: (sunezeugmenon) jungit et diversos sexus, ut cum marem feminamque filios dicimus, Quint. 9, 3, 63:

lavacra pro sexibus separavit,

Spart. Hadr. 18 fin. —

Form secus (in the poets and historians, in the latter usually virile or muliebre secus, as an acc. resp. or limiting accusative, equivalent to the genitive or ablative of quality; v. Zumpt, Lat. Gram. § 428, for the preceding virilis sexūs, the male sex):

filiolam ego unam habui, Virile secus numquam ullum habui,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 19: virile secus, Asell. ap. Gell. 2, 13, 5:

quod ejus virile secus futurum est,

Varr. ib. 3, 10, 7:

secus muliebre,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 8:

puerile,

id. Epigr. 70, 6: virile ac muliebre secus populi multitudo, Sisenn. ap. Non. 222, 27: concurrentium undique virile et muliebre secus, Sall. H. Fragm. ib. 25; and in Macr. S. 2, 9 (p. 228 Gerl.):

ut Philippi statuae... item majorum ejus virile ac muliebre secus omnium tollerentur, Liv 31, 44, 4: multitudinem obsessorum omnis aetatis, virile ac muliebre secus,

Tac. H. 5, 13:

praedas hominum virile et muliebre secus agebant,

Amm. 29, 6, 8 et saep.:

liberorum capitum virile secus ad decem milia capta,

Liv. 26, 47, 1:

athletarum spectaculo muliebre secus omnes adeo summovit, ut, etc.,

Suet. Aug. 44 fin.:

destinatum Lacedaemoniis omnes virile secus interficere,

Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6.—Rarely as nom.:

affluxere avidi talium... virile ac muliebre secus, omnis aetas,

Tac. A. 4, 62:

tres ordine partae, Vesta, Ceres et Juno, secus muliebre, sorores,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 7;

or as object of a verb: cur ex his unum secus virile designet,

Arn. 1, 59; 5, 25: promiscue virile et muliebre secus trucidabant, Amm. 16, 11, 9; 27, 10, 2.—

Transf.

A sex, of plants and minerals, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 31; 12, 14, 32, § 61; 36, 16, 25, § 128; 36, 21, 39, § 149.—

The sexual organs, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 20; Lact. 1, 21, 16.

subsĭcīvus, less correctly subsĕcī-vus (also transp. subcĭsīvus or suc-cĭsīvus), a, um, adj. [sub-seco).

Lit., as t. t. of the agrimensores, that is cut off and left remaining, in surveying lands.— Subst.: subsĭcīvum, i, n., a remainder or small patch of land, etc.:

subsiciva, quae divisis per veteranos agris carptim superfuerunt, etc.,

Suet. Dom. 9 fin.; Auct. Rei Agr. ap. Goes. p. 17; 23;

39: mensores nonnumquam dicunt in subsicivum esse unciam agri, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—

Transf., of time, that remains over and above the principal occupation, etc.; over-, odd, extra (class.):

subsiciva quaedam tempora incurrunt, quae ego perire non patior,

spare time, leisure hours, odd hours, Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 9; cf. Plin. H. N. praef. § 18 Sillig: aliquid subsicivi temporis, Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 1:

tempora (with subsecundaria), Gell. N. A. praef. § 23: tempus,

id. 18, 10, 8:

haec temporum velut subsiciva,

Quint. 1, 12, 13. —

Of that which is done in extra time, etc., accessory work, over-work: opera, Lucil. ap. Non. 175, 22; so in plur.:

subsicivis operis, ut aiunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364:

operae,

id. Phil. 2, 8, 20:

(philosophia) non est res subsiciva, ordinaria est,

i. e. a thing to be attended to at odd times, Sen. Ep. 53, 10. —

In gen., remaining over, occasional, incidental:

una tantum subsiciva solicitudo nobis relicta est,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 41; 8, p. 212, 9:

quam (Italiam) subsicivam Graeciam fecit,

id. Mag. p. 294, 23: succisiva proles, Lact. Opif. Dei, 12, 15 Bünem.; Arn. 5, 30:

vivacitas illic aeterna est, hic caduca et subsiciva,

App. de Deo Socr. 4, p. 44, 7.

subsĭcīvus, less correctly subsĕcī-vus (also transp. subcĭsīvus or suc-cĭsīvus), a, um, adj. [sub-seco).

Lit., as t. t. of the agrimensores, that is cut off and left remaining, in surveying lands.— Subst.: subsĭcīvum, i, n., a remainder or small patch of land, etc.:

subsiciva, quae divisis per veteranos agris carptim superfuerunt, etc.,

Suet. Dom. 9 fin.; Auct. Rei Agr. ap. Goes. p. 17; 23;

39: mensores nonnumquam dicunt in subsicivum esse unciam agri, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—

Transf., of time, that remains over and above the principal occupation, etc.; over-, odd, extra (class.):

subsiciva quaedam tempora incurrunt, quae ego perire non patior,

spare time, leisure hours, odd hours, Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 9; cf. Plin. H. N. praef. § 18 Sillig: aliquid subsicivi temporis, Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 1:

tempora (with subsecundaria), Gell. N. A. praef. § 23: tempus,

id. 18, 10, 8:

haec temporum velut subsiciva,

Quint. 1, 12, 13. —

Of that which is done in extra time, etc., accessory work, over-work: opera, Lucil. ap. Non. 175, 22; so in plur.:

subsicivis operis, ut aiunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364:

operae,

id. Phil. 2, 8, 20:

(philosophia) non est res subsiciva, ordinaria est,

i. e. a thing to be attended to at odd times, Sen. Ep. 53, 10. —

In gen., remaining over, occasional, incidental:

una tantum subsiciva solicitudo nobis relicta est,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 41; 8, p. 212, 9:

quam (Italiam) subsicivam Graeciam fecit,

id. Mag. p. 294, 23: succisiva proles, Lact. Opif. Dei, 12, 15 Bünem.; Arn. 5, 30:

vivacitas illic aeterna est, hic caduca et subsiciva,

App. de Deo Socr. 4, p. 44, 7.

subsĭcīvus, less correctly subsĕcī-vus (also transp. subcĭsīvus or suc-cĭsīvus), a, um, adj. [sub-seco).

Lit., as t. t. of the agrimensores, that is cut off and left remaining, in surveying lands.— Subst.: subsĭcīvum, i, n., a remainder or small patch of land, etc.:

subsiciva, quae divisis per veteranos agris carptim superfuerunt, etc.,

Suet. Dom. 9 fin.; Auct. Rei Agr. ap. Goes. p. 17; 23;

39: mensores nonnumquam dicunt in subsicivum esse unciam agri, etc.,

Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—

Transf., of time, that remains over and above the principal occupation, etc.; over-, odd, extra (class.):

subsiciva quaedam tempora incurrunt, quae ego perire non patior,

spare time, leisure hours, odd hours, Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 9; cf. Plin. H. N. praef. § 18 Sillig: aliquid subsicivi temporis, Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 1:

tempora (with subsecundaria), Gell. N. A. praef. § 23: tempus,

id. 18, 10, 8:

haec temporum velut subsiciva,

Quint. 1, 12, 13. —

Of that which is done in extra time, etc., accessory work, over-work: opera, Lucil. ap. Non. 175, 22; so in plur.:

subsicivis operis, ut aiunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 89, 364:

operae,

id. Phil. 2, 8, 20:

(philosophia) non est res subsiciva, ordinaria est,

i. e. a thing to be attended to at odd times, Sen. Ep. 53, 10. —

In gen., remaining over, occasional, incidental:

una tantum subsiciva solicitudo nobis relicta est,

App. M. 3, p. 132, 41; 8, p. 212, 9:

quam (Italiam) subsicivam Graeciam fecit,

id. Mag. p. 294, 23: succisiva proles, Lact. Opif. Dei, 12, 15 Bünem.; Arn. 5, 30:

vivacitas illic aeterna est, hic caduca et subsiciva,

App. de Deo Socr. 4, p. 44, 7.