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1 semis
sēmis, issis (in Vitr., Front., and Pall. indecl., e.g. duo semis pedes, Pall. Febr. 9, 10:I.duobus semis pedibus,
id. Jan. 10, 3; 13, 7:diametros octo semis,
Vitr. 4, 1:passuum milium et semis,
Front. Aquaed. 7; cf.:habere duos et semis cubitos,
Vulg. Exod. 25, 10 al.), m. [cf. semi-; Gr. hêmi-, hêmisu], a half, half-unity, a semi-unit (v. as, I.).In gen. (very rare for the usual dimidium):II.sex domini semissem Africae possidebant,
Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 35:patrimonii,
Dig. 36, 1, 78, § 7:e libertorum defunctorum bonis,
Suet. Ner. 32:cum alter semissem, alter universa fratre excluso (sibi vindicaret),
Quint. 7, 1, 62:panem semissem ponebat supra torum,
Petr. 64, 6.—In partic. (freq. and class.).A.As a coin,1.Half an as, a semi -as, Varr. L. L. 5, § 171 Müll.; cf. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 44:2.lex frumentaria de semissibus et trientibus,
Auct. Her. 1, 12, 21; Cic. Sest. 25, 55; Liv. Epit. 60; Ascon. ap. Cic. Pis. 4, p. 9 Orell.; hence, non semissis homo, not worth a groat, i. e. good for nothing, worthless, Vatin. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 10 a, 1:quid fit! Semis,
Hor. A. P. 330.—In the times of the later emperors, as a gold coin, a half aureus (containing 59.8 grains of gold, or the present value of 10 s. 6 3/4 d. sterling), Lampr. Alex. Sev. 39.—B.As a rate of interest, one half per cent. a month, or, acc. to our mode of computation, six per cent. a year (cf.:C.bes, triens, etc.): semissibus magna copia (pecuniae) est,
Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2:usura multiplicata semissibus,
Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 56:usura semissium,
Col. 3, 3, 9 sq.;for which also, reversely: semisses usurarum,
id. 3, 3, 9;and in apposition: semisses usuras promisit,
Dig. 22, 1, 13; 22, 45, 134; 46, 3, 102 fin. —As a measure of dimension.1.Half a juger of land:2.bina jugera et semisses agri assignati,
Liv. 6, 16 fin.; cf. Col. 5, 1, 11; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178.—A half-foot, half a foot:3.interesse sesquipedes inter bina semina in latitudinem, in longitudinem semisses,
Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 160:campestris locus alte duos pedes et semissem infodiendus est,
Col. 3, 13, 8; Vitr. 4, 1; Front. Aquaed. 7; Pall. Jan. 10, 2; 10, 4; 13, 7; id. Febr. 9, 10 et saep.; Veg. 5, 40, 3; 3, 11, 4.—Half a cubit:D.cubitum ac semissem,
Vulg. Exod. 25, 17.—Among mathematicians, the number three, Vitr. 3, 1, 6; cf. as fin. -
2 sēmis
sēmis issis, m [semi+as], a half-unit, one half: HS singulos semīs accessionis dare, i. e. one and a half sesterces of premium (on each medimnus): bina iugera et semisses agri adsignati, L.— Half an as: non semissis homo, not worth a groat: (ad quincuncem) redit uncia, quid fit? Semis, H. — Plur abl., as monthly interest, at one half per cent. a month, at half a denarius for each hundred (i. e. six per cent. per annum): semissibus magna copia (pecuniae) est.* * *half as; half; half of any unit; 6 percent per annum (1/2% per month) -
3 sestertius
sestertĭus, a, um, num. adj. [contr. from semis-tertius], two and a half; only in the phrases sestertius nummus and milia sestertia; v. I. A. and I. B. 1. infra.— Mostly as subst.I.sestertĭus (written also with the characters HS.; v. B. 4. infra), ii, m. (sc. nummus); also in full: sestertius nummus; gen. plur. sestertiūm; rarely sestertiorum or sestertiūm nummūm, a sesterce, a small silver coin, originally equal to two and a half asses, or one fourth of a denarius. When the as was reduced in weight, during the Punic wars, the denarius was made equal to sixteen asses, and the sestertius continued to be one fourth of the denarius. Its value, up to the time of Augustus, was twopence and half a farthing sterling, or four and one tenth cents; afterwards about one eighth less. The sestertius was the ordinary coin of the Romans, by which the largest sums were reckoned. The sestertium (1000 sestertii) was equal (up to the time of Augustus, afterwards about one eighth less) to► 8 17 s.1 d. sterling, or $42.94 in United States coin (v. Zumpt, Gram. § 842; Dict. of Ant. s. v. as, sestertius).A.In gen.:B.sestertius, quod duobus semis additur (dupondius enim et semis antiquus sestertius est) et veteris consuetudinis, ut retro aere dicerent, ita ut semis tertius, quartus semis pronunciarent, ab semis tertius sestertius dicitur,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 173 Müll.: nostri quartam denarii partem, quod efficie [p. 1686] batur ex duobus assibus et tertio semisse, sestertium nominaverunt, Vitr. 3, 1 med.; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 30:taxatio in libras sestertii singuli et in penuriā bini,
Plin. 18, 13, 34, § 130.—Freq. joined with nummus:mille nongentos quinquaginta sestertios nummos,
Col. 3, 3, 9.— Gen. plur. sestertiūm: quid verum sit, intellego;sed alias ita loquor, ut concessum est, ut hoc vel pro deum dico vel pro deorum, alias, ut necesse est, cum triumvirum non virorum, cum sestertiūm nummūm non nummorum, quod in his consuetudo varia non est,
Cic. Or. 46, 56:sestertiūm sexagena milia nummūm,
Varr. R. R. 3, 6, 1; cited ap. Plin. 10, 20, 23, § 45.—Rarely, sestertiorum:duo milia sestertiorum,
Col. 3, 3, 13.—In partic.1.As adj. in neutr. plur., with milia (in Varr. and Col.):2.ut asinus venierit sestertiis milibus LX. (= sexaginta milibus sestertium),
Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 14:grex centenarius facile quadragena milia sestertia ut reddat,
id. ib. 3, 6, 6:hos numquam minus dena milia sestertia ex melle recipere,
id. ib. 3, 6, 11:Hirrius ex aedificiis duodena milia sestertia capiebat,
id. ib. 3, 17, 3:sestertiis octo milibus,
Col. 3, 3, 8; 3, 3, 9; 3, 3, 10.—To express more than two complete thousands sestertia is used as plurale tantum, with distrib. numerals (rare before the Aug. per.):3.si qui vilicus ex eo fundo, qui sestertia dena meritasset... domino XX. milia nummūm pro X. miserit (= decem milia sestertiūm),
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 50, § 119:candidati apud eum HS. quingena deposuerunt (= quindecim milia sestertiūm),
id. Att. 4, 15, 7:capit ille ex suis praediis sexcena sestertia, ego centena ex meis,
id. Par. 6, 3, 49:bis dena super sestertia nummum,
Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 33:Tiberius Hortalo se respondisse ait, daturum liberis ejus ducena sestertia singulis,
Tac. A. 2, 38:princeps capiendis pecuniis posuit modum usque ad dena sestertia,
id. ib. 11, 7.—Rarely with card. numerals:sestertia centum,
Sall. C. 30, 6:septem donat sestertia,
Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 80:centum sestertia,
Mart. 6, 20, 1:sex sestertia,
id. 6, 30, 1; cf.:ne cui jus esset nisi qui... HS. CCCC. census fuisset,
Plin. 33, 2, 8, § 32.—Millions of sesterces were expressed in three ways:a.By the words centena (or centum) milia sestertiūm, preceded by a numeral adverb (rare): miliens centena milia sestertium, a hundred millions, etc., Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 84.—b.With ellips. of the words centena milia, the gen. plur. sestertiūm being preceded by the numeral adv. (rare;c.once in Cic.): HS. (i. e. sestertium) quater decies P. Tadio numerata Athenis... planum faciam (i.e. sestertiūm quater decies centena milia, = 1,400,000 sesterces),
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 39, § 100 (where B. and K. after Orell. read. ex conj., sestertium; v. Kühner, Gram. § 229, 5 b.).—With sestertium, declined as subst. neutr., and the numeral adverbs from decies upward (also with ellips. of centena or centum milia; sestertium here = centum milia sestertiūm. The origin of this usage, which became general, has been much disputed, and it is usual to explain it, after Non. p. 495 (cf. Quint. 1, 6, 18), as a grammatical blunder, by which the gen. plur. sestertium has been mistaken for a neutr. sing., Zumpt, Gram. § 873; but it more probably grew out of the adj. use of sestertium with mille, supra; v. Fischer, Gram. 2, p. 269; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 116; Kühner, Gram. § 209).(α).Nom. and acc.:(β).quom ei testamento sestertium milies relinquatur,
Cic. Off. 3, 24, 93:nonne sestertium centies et octogies... Romae in quaestu reliquisti?
id. Pis. 35, 86:sestertium sexagies, quod advexerat Domitius,
Caes. B. C. 1, 23, 4:sestertium quadringenties aerario illatum est,
Tac. A. 13, 31:sestertium deciens numeratum esse,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 20; 2, 3, 70, § 163:quadringenties sestertium, quod debuisti,
id. Phil. 2, 37, 93; id. Off. 3, 24, 93; Nep. Att. 14, 2:sestertium ducenties ex eā praedā redactum esse,
Liv. 45, 43, 8; Val. Max. 9, 1, 6:sestertium milies in culinam congerere,
Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 10, 3:quater milies sestertium suum vidit,
id. Ben. 2, 27, 1; Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 37; Tac. A. 6, 45; 12, 22; 12, 53; 13, 31; id. H. 4, 47; Suet. Calig. 37; id. Galb. 5.—Sometimes with ellips. of sestertium:dissipatio, per quam Antonius septies miliens avertit,
Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 11.—Gen.:(γ).syngrapha sestertii centies per legatos facta,
Cic. Phil. 2, 37, 95:argenti ad summam sestertii decies in aerarium rettulit,
Liv. 45, 4, 1:sestertii milies servus,
Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 1:liberalitas decies sestertii,
Tac. A. 2, 37; 2, 86:centies sestertii largitio,
id. ib. 12, 58; 12, 53; Plin. Ep. 10, 3 (5), 2.—Abl.:C.quadragies sestertio villam venisse,
Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 3:sexagies sestertio, tricies sestertio,
Val. Max. 9, 1, 4:centies sestertio cenavit uno die,
Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 9, 11:pantomimae decies sestertio nubunt,
id. ib. 12, 5; id. Ben. 4, 36, 1; Plin. 8, 48, 74, § 196:accepto quinquagies sestertio,
Tac. A. 3, 17; 6, 17; 16, 13; id. H. 4, 42; Plin. Ep. 3, 19, 7; Suet. Caes. 50; id. Tib. 48; id. Calig. 38, 4.—The sign HS., i.e. II. and semis, stands for sestertius, sestertia, and sestertium, in all the uses described above; when it is necessary, to avoid ambiguity, its meanings are distinguished thus: HS. XX. stands for sestertii viginti; HS. X̅X̅., with a line over the numeral, = sestertia vicena, or 20,000 sesterces; H̅S̅. X̅X̅., with lines over both signs, = sestertium vicies, or 2,000,000 sesterces (Kühner, Gram. § 229 Anm. 1). But in recent edd. the numerals are usu. written in full, when the meaning would otherwise be doubtful.—Transf., in gen.a.Nummo sestertio or sestertio nummo, for a small sum, for a trifle (good prose):* b. D.ecquis est, qui bona C. Rabirii Postumi nummo sestertio sibi addici velit? Tua, Postume, nummo sestertio a me addicuntur,
Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 45; Val. Max. 5, 2, 10:C. Matienus damnatus sestertio nummo veniit,
Liv. Epit. 55:quae maxima inter vos habentur, divitiae, gratia, potentia, sestertio nummo aestiman da sunt,
Sen. Ep. 95, 59; Val. Max. 8, 2, 3.—In the times of the emperors, also, a copper coin, worth four asses, Plin. 34, 2, 2, § 4; cf. Eckhel. Doctr. Num. 6, p. 283.—* II.ses-tertĭum, ii, n., in econom. lang., as a measure of dimension, two and a half feet deep:ipsum agrum sat erit bipalio vertere: quod vocant rustici sestertium,
Col. Arb. 1, 5 (for which:siccus ager bipalio subigi debet, quae est altitudo pastinationis, cum in duos pedes et semissem convertitur humus,
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4 sēstertius or HS
sēstertius or HS (i. e. II semis), adj. num. [for * semis-tertius], two and a half.—As subst m. (sc. nummus; gen plur. sestertiūm), a sesterce (a small silver coin, originally two and a half asses, worth twopence and half a farthing sterling, or four and one tenth cents): cum esset tritici modius sestertiis duobus: cum HS XXX scripta essent pro HS CCC: praedia pluris sestertiūm XXX milium habere, L.— Plur n. as subst., with ellipse of milia, thousands of sesterces.—Usu. with num distr.: fundus, qui sestertia dena meritasset: HS quingena (i. e. quindecim milia sestertiūm).— Rarely with num card.: sestertia centum, S.: septem donat sestertia, H.—With ellipse of centena milia: HS quater deciens (i. e. sestertiūm quater deciens centena milia, or 1,400,000 sesterces).—For the phrase, centena milia sestertiūm, the word sestertium was commonly used, and declined as subst n., with the numeral adverbs from deciens upward: quom ei testamento sestertium milies relinquatur: sestertium centiens et octogiens: HS LX, quod advexerat Domitius, Cs.: sestertium deciens numeratum esse: argenti ad summam sestertii deciens in aerarium rettulit, L.: in sestertio centiens adfluentius vivere, N.—With nummus, in abl. of price, at an insignificant sum, for a trifle: bona nummo sestertio sibi addici velle: si amplius HS nummo petisti. -
5 tremis
trēmis, issis, m. [formed after the analogy of semis, from tres and as]; under the later emperors, a coin, the third part of an aureus, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 39; Cod. Just. 12, 40, 3; cf. semis, II. A. 2. -
6 sēmi-
sēmi- praep. [cf. semis].—Only in composition, half-, demi-, semi-. -
7 sēmissis
sēmissis gen. of semis. -
8 sēsqui
sēsqui adv. num. [cf. semis], one half, by a half: pars aequalis alteri aut sesqui maior.* * *one and a half times/more; more by half -
9 sestertius
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10 as
as, assis, m. (nom. assis, Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 9, and Schol. ad Pers. 2, 59; old form assārĭus, ii, m.; and in the gen. plur. assariūm, Varr. L. L. 8, § 71 Müll.; Charis. p. 58 P.) [heis, Dor. ais, Tarent. as, Hinter].I.In gen., unity, a unit; as a standard for different coins, weight, measure, etc. (in Vitr. 3, 1, p. 61 Rode, perfectus numerus, the perfect number, fundamental number), acc. to the duodecimal system, divided into 12 parts, or uncias, with the following particular designations: uncia = 1s./12 duodecima (sc. pars) sextans = 2/12 = 1s./6 sexta quadrans = 3/12 = 1s./4 quarta, also teruncius or triuncis triens = 4/12 = 1s./3 tertia or quincunx = 5s./12 sextans cum quadrante semissis s. semis = 6/12 = 1s./2 dimidia septunx = 7s./12 quadrans cum triente bessis s. bes = 8/12 = 2/3, for beis s. binae partes assis. dodrans = 9/12 = 3s./4 terni quadrantes dextans s. decunx = 10/12 = 5s./6 quini sextantes deunx = 11s./12 undecim unciaeThe uncia was again divided into smaller parts: semuncia = 1/2 uncia = 1/24 assis. duella = 1/3 uncia = 1/36 assis. sicilicus (-um) = 1/4 uncia = 1/48 assis. sextula = 1/6 uncia = 1/72 assis. drachma = 1/8 uncia = 1/96 assis. hemisecla = 1/12 uncia = 1/144 assis. scripulum = 1/24 uncia = 1/288 assis.The multiples of the as received the following designations: dupondius = 2 asses. tripondius s. tressis = 3 asses. (quadressis) = 4 asses. quinquessis = 5 asses. sexis (only in the connection decussissexis in Vitr. 1. c.) = 6 asses. septissis = 7 asses. octussis = 8 asses. nonussis (novissis?) = 9 asses. decussis = 10 asses. bicessis = 20 asses. tricessis = 30 asses, and so on to centussis = 100 asses. (Cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 169 sq. Müll.)II.Esp.A.1.. As a copper coin, the as was, acc. to the ancient custom of weighing money, originally a pound (asses librales or aes grave), of the value of about 8 8 d. /89, or 16 2/3 cents, and was uncoined (aes rude) until Servius Tullius stamped it with the figures of animals (hence pecunia, from pecus); cf. Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 42 sqq. In the first Punic war, on account of the scarcity of money, the as was reduced to a sixth part of its original weight, i. e. two ounces; hence asses sextantarii (of the value of about 1 103 d. /297, or 2.8 cents), and the state gained five sixths. In the second Punic war, and the dictatorship of Fabius, the as was again reduced one half, to one ounce; hence asses unciales, about equal to 200 d. /297, or 1.4 cents. Finally, the Lex Papiria (A.U.C. 563, B.C. 191) reduced the as to half an ounce; hence asses semiunciales = 100 d. /297, or 7.9 1/3 mills, which continued as a standard even under the emperors. In all these reductions, however, the names of coins remained, independent of the weight of the as: uncia, sextans, quadrans, etc.; cf. Grotef. Gr. II. p. 253 sq.—From the small value of the as after the last reduction, the following phrases arose: quod non opus est, asse carum est, Cato ap. Sen. Ep. 94:2.Quod (sc. pondus auri) si comminuas, vilem redigatur ad assem,
Hor. S. 1, 1, 43:viatica ad assem Perdiderat,
to the last farthing, id. Ep. 2, 2, 27:ad assem impendium reddere,
Plin. Ep. 1, 15:rumores Omnes unius aestimemus assis,
Cat. 5, 3:Non assis facis?
id. 42, 13.—Hence,The proverbs,a.Assem habeas, assem valeas, your worth is estimated by your possessions, Petr. 77, 6:b.crumena plena assium,
Gell. 20, 1.—Assem elephanto dare, to give something (as a petition, and the like) with trembling to a superior (a metaphor derived from trained elephants, which, after playing their parts, were accustomed to take pay for themselves, which was given them with fear by the multitude; cf. Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 14), Augustus ap. Quint. 6, 3, 59, and Macr. S. 2, 4; Varr. ap. Non. p. 531, 10 sq.—B.In inheritances and other money matters, where a division was made, the as, with its parts, was used to designate the portions. Thus haeres ex asse, sole heir; haeres ex semisse, he who receives one half of the inheritance; haeres ex dodrante, he who receives three fourths; and so, haeres ex besse, triente, quadrante, sextante, etc.;C.ex semiunciā, ex sextulā, ex duabus sextulis, etc.,
Dig. 28, 5, 50; 34, 9, 2; Suet. Caes. 83; Cic. Caecin. 6 et saep.:Nerva constituit, ut tu ex triente socius esses, ego ex besse,
Dig. 17, 2, 76:bessem fundi emere ab aliquo,
ib. 26, 21, 2, § 39:quadrans et semissis fundi,
ib. 6, 1, 8 al.;hence, in assem, in asse, or ex asse,
in all, entirely, completely, Dig. 36, 45:vendere fundum in assem,
ib. 20, 6, 9; so Col. 3, 3, 8 and 9:in asse,
id. 2, 12, 7:sic in asse flunt octo menses et dies decem,
id. 2, 12, 7:ex asse aut ex parte possidere,
Dig. 2, 8, 15; Sid. Ep. 2, 1; 6, 12; 8, 6 al.—As a measure of extent.a.An acre, acc. to the same divisions as above, from scripulum to the as, Col. 5, 1, 9 sq.:b.proscindere semissem, iterare assem,
Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178.—A foot, Col. 5, 3.—D.Of weight, a pound, acc. to the same division; cf.Fann. Pond. 41: In haec solide sexta face assis eat,
Ov. Med. Fac. 60.↠Mathematicians (v. Vitr. l. c.) called the number 6 perfectus numerus (since 1 + 2 + 3 = 6), and formed, accordingly, the following terminology: 1 = sextans, as a dice-number. unio. 2 = triens.......... binio. 3 = semissis.......... ternio. 4 = bessis (dimoiros)..... quaternio. 5 = quintarius....... quinio. 6 = perfectus numerus.... senio. 7 = ephektos, sex adjecto asse = 6 + 1. 8 = adtertiarius, sex adjectā tertiā = 6 + 2 (epitritos). 9 = sesquialter, sex adjectā dimidiā = 6 + 3 (hêmiolios). 10 = bes alter, sex duabus partibus additis = 6 + 4 (epidimoiros). 11 = adquintarius, sex quinque partibus additis = 6 + 5 (epipentamoiros). 12 = duplio (diplasiôn). -
11 S
S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.I.The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);II.in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,
Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);III.and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,
Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—IV.As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—V.S is interchanged,A.Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—B.With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—C.With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—D.With x; v. that letter.—VI.S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —VII.As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc. -
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S, s, indecl. n. or (agreeing with littera) f.I.The eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding in form to the old Greek S for S (Etruscan in a reversed form,);II.in its nature a sibilant semi-vowel, whose peculiarities were much discussed by the ancients, and are even treated of in a special work by Messala, a contemporary of Augustus (Messala in libro de S littera,
Quint. 1, 7, 23; cf. Mart. Cap. 3, § 245).—As an initial and medial it has a hard and sharp sound (which is softened, however, between two vowels), and is therefore joined only with the tenues (c, p, t; cf., on the contrary, the Gr. sbennumi);III.and, as a medial, often written double after long vowels: caussa, cassus, divissiones (these forms, used by Cicero and Vergil, were already uncommon in Quintilian's time,
Quint. 1, 7, 20; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 283 sq.).—As a final it had a weakened sound, and therefore not only admitted the medial b before it (plebs, urbs, abs; Arabs, chalybs, etc.; v. the letter B), but often entirely disappeared. So in the ante-class. poets down to the early years of Cicero (and also in his own poem, entitled Aratus, written in his youth), before words beginning with a consonant, to avoid position: Ratu' Romulus, Fulviu' Nobilior, gravi' Terra, est sati' bella, Hyperioni' cursum, Virgine' nam sibi, etc.; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 161; Quint. 9, 4, 38; and v. Freund, in Jahn's Neue Jahrb. 1835, XIII. p. 25 sq.; less freq. before words beginning with a vowel, in which case, to avoid a hiatus, the vowel before s was also elided; vas' argenteis (for vasis argenteis) and palm' et crinibus (for palmis et crinibus); v. Cic. Or. 45, 153. So, too, in the fourth Epitaph of the Scipios (Inscr. Orell. 553), L. CORNELIO L. F. instead of CORNELIOS (cf. a similar elision of the M under that letter). Final s is also elided, and the preceding vowel either dropped with it or weakened, in the forms sat from satis, mage from magis; in the neutr. forms of adjectives of the third declension, acre, agreste, facile (v. the letter E); in the collat. forms of the sec. pers. sing. pass., fatere, fateare, fatebare, etc.; in the gen. sing. of the first, second, and fifth declensions, and in the nom. plur. of the first and second declensions (aurai for aura-is, analog. to reg is, etc.). Lastly, s disappears in the (mostly familiar) collat. forms abin', scin', viden', satin', from abisne, scisne, videsne, satisne, etc.—IV.As an etymological initial aspirate, s appears in many words whose Greek equivalents begin with a vowel: sal, semi-, serpo, sex, super, sus, corresp. to hals, hêmi-, herpô, hex, huper, us, etc.; si (archaic sei), sero, Segesta, corresp. to ei, ERÔ (whence eirô), Egesta. Less freq. in radical words beginning with a consonant: sculpo corresp. to gluphô, and the derivatives scruta, from grutê, and scrupedae, from kroupeza. To soften the termination, s appears in abs = ab, and ex corresp. to ek.—Very freq., on the contrary, an initial s appears in cognate forms in other languages, where corresp. Latin words have lost the s: Lat. fallo, Gr. sphallô; fungus, Gr. sphongos; fides, Gr. sphidê (comp. also nix with Engl. [p. 1609] snow, nurus with old Germ. snur, daughterin-law); cf. also cutis and scutum; cauda and root sku-, in Goth. skauts, etc.; casa and Gr. skia, skênê; cerno and Gr. krinô for skirnô, skôr, skôria; calumnia and skallô; gradior and root scra-, Germ. schreiten; parco and sparnos; penuria and spanis; pando and spaô; tego and stegô; tono and stonos; taurus and Sanscr. sthūras, Germ. Stier al.; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, p. 277 sqq.—In the middle of a word s is dropped in at from ast.—V.S is interchanged,A.Most freq. with r; in partic., an original s, between two vowels, becomes r; v. Varr. L. L. 7, § 26 Müll.; so foederum for foedesum, plurima for plusima, meliorem for meliosem, Lares for Lases, etc.; cf. eram and sum, quaero and quaeso, nasus and naris. Appius Claudius, the censor, is said to have introduced r into the names Furius, Valerius, etc., in place of s, B.C. 312 (v. the letter R, II.).—B.With d: Claudius, from the Sabine Clausus; and, on the other hand, rosa, corresp. to the Gr. rhodon; cf. Schneid. Gram. 1, p. 259.—C.With t: tensus and tentus, resina corresp. to rhêtinê; and, on the contrary, aggrettus for aggressus; mertare, pultare, for mersare, pulsare (perh. also assentor for assensor).—D.With x; v. that letter.—VI.S is assimilated before f in the compounds of dis: differo, difficilis, diffluo, etc.; v. 3. dis.— On the other hand, it arises by assimilation from d, in assum, assumo, cessi, for adsum, adsumo, ced-si; from t in fassus, from fateor; from b in jussi, from jubeo; from m in pressi, from premo; from r in gessi, from gero; and dossuarius, from dorsum. —VII.As an abbreviation, S denotes sacrum, semis, sibi, suis, etc.; S. AS. D., sub asciā dedicavit; S. C., senatusconsultum; perh. also, sententia collegii (Inscr. Orell. 2385); S. P., sua pecunia; S. P. Q. R., Senatus Populusque Romanus, etc. -
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sēmi- (also, before vowels, merely sēm-, and before libra, mestris, from mensis, and modius, sē-), an inseparable particle [Sanscr. sāmi; Gr. hêmi-, hêmisus; cf. semis], half, demi-, semi-; as, semestris, semi-monthly; semesus, half-eaten; semideus, demigod, etc.; hence, also, for small, thin, light, etc.; as, semicinctium, semifunium, semipiscina, [p. 1665] semispatha, al.—Only a very few of these compounds are ante-Aug.; most of them, indeed, belong only to the post-class. per. -
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sēmissālis, e, adj. [semis], of or belonging to a half- as: usurae, i.e. a half- as a month (six per cent. a year), Dig. 50, 12, 10. -
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sēmisso, āre, v. a. [semis, II. C. 2.], to fire or cauterize one half of a horse's foot:pedes equorum,
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sesquĭ ( sesque), num. adv. [perh. contr. from semis-qui], one half more, more by a half. As a separate word it occurs only once:ut necesse sit partem pedis aut aequalem alteri parti aut altero tanto aut sesqui esse majorem (just after, sesquiplex),
Cic. Or. 56, 188. But freq. joined in one word with designations of number or quantity, with the signif. of once and a half. Joined with numerals (octavus and tertius), like the Gr. epi (in epogdoos, epitritos, etc.), it denotes an integer and such a fraction over as the numeral designates; v. sesquioctavus, etc. -
19 sesqui
sesquĭ ( sesque), num. adv. [perh. contr. from semis-qui], one half more, more by a half. As a separate word it occurs only once:ut necesse sit partem pedis aut aequalem alteri parti aut altero tanto aut sesqui esse majorem (just after, sesquiplex),
Cic. Or. 56, 188. But freq. joined in one word with designations of number or quantity, with the signif. of once and a half. Joined with numerals (octavus and tertius), like the Gr. epi (in epogdoos, epitritos, etc.), it denotes an integer and such a fraction over as the numeral designates; v. sesquioctavus, etc. -
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I.Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, Liv. 1, 41 sqq. —II.M. Tullius Cicero, the renowned statesman and orator. —III.Q. Tullius Cicero, his brother. —IV.M. Tullius Tiro, a freedman of M. Cicero. —V. VI.A daughter of M. Tullius Cicero. —Hence, Tullĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Tullius, Tullian:semis,
Cic. Att. 15, 29, 1:caput,
id. ib. 15, 26, 4: Scipio, i. e. introduced in Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 1.— Subst.: Tullĭānum, i, n., the dungeon of the state-prison in Rome, built by king Servius Tullius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 151 Müll.; Sall. C. 55, 3 sq.; Liv. 29, 22, 10; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 262 sq.— Adv.: Tullĭānē, in the manner of M. Tullius Cicero: jocari, Aug. contr. Pelag. 2, 10, 37.
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