inter-seco

inter-sĕco, sĕcui, sectum, 1, v. a., to cut asunder, separate, divide, intersect (postclass.):

Tiberis media intersecans moenia,

Amm. 29, 6, 17:

mediam paludem,

id. 15, 4, 4:

aquarum ductibus intersectis,

id. 21, 12, 17:

terras,

id. 23, 6, 13:

telluris complexum intersecat (Nilus) multitudine fluviorum,

Mart. Cap. 6, § 626.—

Trop., to fix in channels, impress deeply:

ipsa pronuntiatione eas res... inserere atque insecare in animis auditorum,

Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24.

secta, ae, f. [ part. perf. of seco, sc. via, v. seco, I. C. 2., and II. B. fin. ]; prop., a trodden or beaten way, a path; footsteps; hence, trop., a (prescribed) way, mode, manner, method, principles of conduct or procedure (syn.: ratio, via, etc.); most freq. in the phrase sectam (alicujus) sequi (persequi, etc.), to follow in the footsteps (of any one); hence, also, sectam (alicujus) secuti, a party, faction, sect.

In gen.:

nos, qui hanc sectam rationemque vitae, re magis quam verbis, secuti sumus,

mode of life, Cic. Cael. 17, 40; so,

vitae,

Quint. 3, 8, 38; 12, 2, 6; Plin. Pan. 45, 4; cf. id. ib. 85, 7:

horum nos hominum sectam atque instituta persequimur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 181; cf.:

cujus sectam sequi, cujus imperio parere potissimum vellet,

id. Rab. Perd. 8, 22:

sequi ejus auctoritatem, cujus sectam atque imperium secutus est,

id. Fam. 13, 4, 2:

omnis natura habet quasi viam quandam et sectam quam sequatur,

id. N. D. 2, 22, 57:

negant se pro Vitruvio sectamque ejus secutis precatum venisse,

Liv. 8, 19; cf. id. 29, 27; 35, 49; 36, 1;

42, 31: juvenes hortatur, ut illam ire viam pergant et eidem incumbere sectae,

Juv. 14, 121 sq.:

divitioris sectam plerumque secuntur Quamlibet et fortes,

follow, adhere to, Lucr. 5, 1114:

gallae sectam meam exsecutae, mihi comites, etc.,

Cat. 63, 15 et saep.—

In partic., doctrines, school, sect (not freq. until the post-Aug. per.; syn.: schola, disciplina).

In philosophic lang.:

quo magis tuum, Brute, judicium probo, qui eorum philosophorum sectam secutus es,

Cic. Brut. 31, 120; cf.:

inter Stoicos et Epicuri sectam secutos pugna perpetua est,

Quint. 5, 7, 35.— Plur.:

ad morem certas in philosophia sectas sequendi,

Quint. 3, 1, 18:

neque me cujusdam sectae velut quādam superstitione imbutus addixi,

id. 3, 1, 22:

assumptā Stoicorum arrogantiā sectāque,

Tac. A. 14, 57:

Demetrio Cynicam sectam professo,

id. H. 4, 40:

auctoritatem Stoicae sectae praeferebat,

id. A. 16, 32; 6, 22:

inter duos diversarum sectarum velut duces,

Quint. 5, 13, 59. —

In jurisprudence:

hi duo primum veluti diversas sectas fecerunt,

schools, Dig. 1, 2, 2, § 47.—

In medicine, a school:

alia est Hippocratis secta, alia Asclepiadis,

Sen. Ep. 95, 9.—

In religion, a sect, Cod. Just. 1, 9, 3:

plurimae sectae et haereses,

Lact. 4, 30, 2:

Nazaraenorum,

Vulg. Act. 24, 5.—

Rarely of a class or guild of men:

sincera et innoxia pastoriae illius sectae integritas,

Flor. 3, 12, 2.—

In Appul., a band of robbers, App. M. 4, pp. 150, 29, and 153, 22.

secta, ōrum, n. [1. seco, I. B. 1.], parts of the body operated upon:

secta recentia,

Plin. 31, 11, 47, § 126.

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.