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sējŭgis, is, m. (sc. currus) [sex-jugum], a team of six horses, a chariot drawn by six horses:

(VICI) SEIVGE (EQVO),

Inscr. Orell. 2593; 6179.—The same more freq. and class. in the plur.:

sejuges aurati,

Liv. 38, 35; so,

sejuges,

Plin. 34, 5, 10, § 19.—As adj.:

sejuges currus,

drawn by six horses, App. Flor. p. 356.—Collat. form sējŭgae, ārum, f. (in analogy with bigae, quadrigae, etc.), a chariot and six, Isid. Orig. 13, 36, 1 and 2.

sē-jŭgis, e, adj. [jugum], disjoined, separate:

gentes ad unum morem conjugare,

Sol. 4, 2.

sēmestris, e, adj. [sex-mensis].

Of six months, half-yearly, semi-annual: dies, nox, lasting six months (far in the north), Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5:

regnum,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7:

imperium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

dux,

Liv. 21, 43, 15:

consulatus,

Suet. Ner. 14:

tribunatus (militaris),

Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; hence also, aurum, the ring of the tribunes (worn for six months):

semestri vatum digitos circumligat auro,

Juv. 7, 89; cf.

also, consilia,

Suet. Aug. 35:

spatium,

Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 280:

filius,

six months old, id. 11, 51, 112, § 270; so,

leones,

id. 8, 16, 17, § 45; cf.

vita,

id. 8, 39, 60, § 141:

aves, hirundines,

id. 10, 25, 36, § 73.—

Plur. subst.: sē-mestrĭa, ium, n., the semi-annual collection of imperial ordinances, Dig. 2, 14, 46; 18, 7, 10 fin.; 29, 2, 12.

sēmestris, e, adj. [semi-mensis], semi-monthly:

luna,

i. e. the full moon, App. M. 11, p. 258, 29:

species (lunae),

Amm. 20, 3, 1; cf. semestrium.

sēmestris, e, adj. [sex-mensis].

Of six months, half-yearly, semi-annual: dies, nox, lasting six months (far in the north), Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5:

regnum,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7:

imperium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 9:

dux,

Liv. 21, 43, 15:

consulatus,

Suet. Ner. 14:

tribunatus (militaris),

Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; hence also, aurum, the ring of the tribunes (worn for six months):

semestri vatum digitos circumligat auro,

Juv. 7, 89; cf.

also, consilia,

Suet. Aug. 35:

spatium,

Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 280:

filius,

six months old, id. 11, 51, 112, § 270; so,

leones,

id. 8, 16, 17, § 45; cf.

vita,

id. 8, 39, 60, § 141:

aves, hirundines,

id. 10, 25, 36, § 73.—

Plur. subst.: sē-mestrĭa, ium, n., the semi-annual collection of imperial ordinances, Dig. 2, 14, 46; 18, 7, 10 fin.; 29, 2, 12.

sēmestris, e, adj. [semi-mensis], semi-monthly:

luna,

i. e. the full moon, App. M. 11, p. 258, 29:

species (lunae),

Amm. 20, 3, 1; cf. semestrium.

sēnārĭus, a, um, adj. [seni].

In gen., consisting of six each; fistula, six quarter-digits (quadrantes) in diameter, Front. Aquaed. 25:

numerus,

the number six, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6.—

In partic.: versus, a verse consisting of six feet (usu. iambics), Quint. 9, 4, 125; Phaedr. 1, prol. 2.—More freq. as subst.: sēnārĭus, ii, m., Cic. Or. 55, 184; 56, 189; Quint. 9, 4, 72; 9, 4, 140 al.

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ālĕa, ae, f. [of uncer. origin; Curtius asserts an obscure connection with the words for bone; Sanscr. asthi; Zend, açti; Gr. osteon; Lat. os (ossis)].

A game with dice, and in gen., a game of hazard or chance. There were among the Romans two kinds of dice, tesserae and tali, Cic. Sen. 16, 58. The tesserae had six sides, which were marked with I. II. III. IV. V. VI.; the tali were rounded on two sides, and marked only on the other four. Upon one side there was one point, unio, an ace, like the ace on cards, called canis; on the opp. side, six points called senio, six, sice; on the two other sides, three and four points, ternio and quaternio. In playing, four tali were used, but only three tesserae. They were put into a box made in the form of a tower, with a strait neck, and wider below than above, called fritillus, turris, turricula, etc. This box was shaken, and the dice were thrown upon the gaming-board. The highest or most fortunate throw, called Venus, jactus Venereus or basilicus, was, of the tesserae, three sixes, and of the tali when they all came out with different numbers. The worst or lowest throw, called jactus pessimus or damnosus, canis or canicula, was, of the tesserae, three aces, and of the tali when they were all the same. The other throws were valued acc. to the numbers. When one of the tali fell upon the end (in caput) it was said rectus cadere, or assistere, Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 54, and the throw was repeated. While throwing the dice, it was customary for a person to express his wishes, to repeat the name of his mistress, and the like. Games of chance were prohibited by the Lex Titia et Publicia et Cornelia (cf. Hor. C. 3, 24, 58), except in the month of December, during the Saturnalia, Mart. 4, 14, 7; 5, 85; 14, 1; Suet. Aug. 71; Dig. 11, 5. The character of gamesters, aleatores or aleones, was held as infamous in the time of Cicero, cf. Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; id. Phil. 2, 23, although there was much playing with aleae, and old men were esp. fond of this game, because it required little physical exertion, Cic. Sen. 16, 58; Suet. Aug. 71; Juv. 14, 4; cf.

Jahn,

Ov. Tr. 2, 471; Rupert. ad Tac. G. 24, 5:

provocat me in aleam, ut ego ludam,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 75.—Ludere aleā or aleam, also sometimes in aleā:

in foro aleā ludere,

Cic. Phil. 2, 23, 56; Dig. 11, 5, 1: ludit assidue aleam, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70:

aleam studiosissime lusit,

Suet. Claud. 33; so id. Ner. 30; Juv. 8, 10:

repetitio ejus, quod in aleā lusum est,

Dig. 11, 5, 4.—Hence, in aleā aliquid perdere, Cic. Phil. 2, 13:

exercere aleam,

Tac. G. 24:

indulgere aleae,

Suet. Aug. 70:

oblectare se aleā,

id. Dom. 21:

prosperiore aleā uti,

to play fortunately, id. Calig. 41.— Trop.: Jacta alea esto, Let the die be cast! Let the game be ventured! the memorable exclamation of Cæsar when, at the Rubicon, after long hesitation, he finally decided to march to Rome, Suet. Caes. 32, ubi v. Casaub. and Ruhnk.—

Transf., any thing uncertain or contingent, an accident, chance, hazard, venture, risk:

alea domini vitae ac rei familiaris,

Varr. R. R. 1, 4:

sequentes non aleam, sed rationem aliquam,

id. ib. 1, 18:

aleam inesse hostiis deligendis,

Cic. Div. 2, 15:

dare summam rerum in aleam,

to risk, Liv. 42, 59:

in dubiam imperii servitiique aleam ire,

fortune, chance, id. 1, 23:

alea belli,

id. 37, 36:

talibus admissis alea grandis inest,

Ov. A. A. 1, 376:

periculosae plenum opus aleae,

Hor. C. 2, 1, 6: M. Tullius extra omnem ingenii aleam positus, raised above all doubt of his talents, Plin. praef. § 7: emere aleam, in the Pandects, to purchase any thing uncertain, contingent, e. g. a draught of fishes, Dig. 18, 1, 8; so ib. 18, 4, 7.

hexăphŏros, on, adj., = hexaphoros, one of six who carry a load together:

phalangarii,

Vitr. 10, 8 med. —

Borne by six together; subst.: hexăphŏrum, i, n., = hexaphoron, a litter borne by six men, Mart. 2, 81, 1:

non debes ferri mortuus hexaphoro,

id. 6, 77, 10.

hexăphŏros, on, adj., = hexaphoros, one of six who carry a load together:

phalangarii,

Vitr. 10, 8 med. —

Borne by six together; subst.: hexăphŏrum, i, n., = hexaphoron, a litter borne by six men, Mart. 2, 81, 1:

non debes ferri mortuus hexaphoro,

id. 6, 77, 10.

lictor (pronounced līctor, Gell. 12, 3, 4), ōris, m. [1. ligo; cf. Gell. 12, 3, 1 sqq.], a lictor, i. e. an attendant granted to a magistrate, as a sign of official dignity. The Romans adopted this custom from the Etrurians:

Romulus cum cetero habitu se augustiorem tum maxime lictoribus duodecim sumptis (a finitima Etruria) fecit,

Liv. 1, 8. The lictors bore a bundle of rods, from which an axe projected. Their duty was to walk before the magistrate in a line, one after the other; to call out to the people to make way (submovere turbam);

and to remind them of paying their respects to him (animadvertere, v. h. v.). The foremost one was called primus lictor: apud quem primus quievit lictor,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 21;

the last and nearest to the consul, proximus lictor,

Liv. 24, 44 fin. The lictors had also to execute sentences of judgment, to bind criminals to a stake, to scourge them, and to behead them, Liv. 1, 26; 8, 7; 38;

26, 16.—It was necessary that lictors should be freeborn: not till the time of Tacitus were freedmen also appointed to the office. They were united into a company, and formed the decuriae apparitorum (public servants). In Rome they wore the toga, in the field the sagum, in triumphal processions a purple mantle and fasces wreathed with laurel: togulae lictoribus ad portam praesto fuerunt, quibus illi acceptis, sagula rejecerunt et catervam imperatori suo novam praebuerunt,

Cic. Pis. 23, 55. Only those magistrates who had potestatem cum imperio had lictors. In the earliest times the king had twelve; immediately after the expulsion of the kings, each of the two consuls had twelve;

but it was soon decreed that the consuls should be preceded for a month alternately by twelve lictors,

Liv. 2, 1;

a regulation which appears to have been afterwards, although not always, observed,

Liv. 22, 41;

Cæsar was the first who restored the old custom,

Suet. Caes. 20.—The decemvirs had, in their first year of office, twelve lictors each one day alternately, Liv. 3, 33;

in their second year each had twelve lictors to himself,

id. 3, 36.—

The military tribunes with consular power had also twelve lictors,

Liv. 4, 7;

and likewise the interrex,

id. 1, 17.—The dictator had twenty-four, Dio, 54, 1; Polyb. 3, 87; Plut. Fab. 4;

the magister equitum only six, Dio, 42, 27. The praetor urbanus had, in the earlier times, two lictors,

Censor. de Die Natal. 24: at enim unum a praetura tua, Epidice, abest. Ep. Quidnam? Th. Scies. Lictores duo, duo viminei fasces virgarum, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 26; in the provinces he had six;

but in the later times the praetor had in the city, as well as in the province, six lictors, Polyb. 3, 40: cum praetor lictorem impellat et ire praecipitem jubeat,

Juv. 3, 128. The quaestor had lictors only in the province, when he, in consequence of the praetor's absence or death, performed the functions of propraetor, Sall. C. 19; Cic. Planc. 41, 98. Moreover, the flamen dialis, the vestals, and the magistri vicorum had lictors;

these, however, appear to have had no fasces, which was also the case with the thirty lictores curiati (who summoned the curiae to vote),

Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 81; Gell. 15, 27, 2; Inscr. Grut. 33, 4; 630, 9.—

Transf.:

lictorem feminae in publico unionem esse,

a lady's mark of distinction, Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 114.

sēvir or sexvir (in inscrr., where this word most freq. occurs, commonly written with numerals, VI. vir, or ĪĪĪĪĪĪ. VIR), vĭri, m. [sex-vir], a member of a board or college consisting of six men, a sexvir.

One of the presidents of the six divisions of Roman knights, Inscr. Orell. 732; 1172; 2242; 2258 al.—

Augustalis, a member of the college of priests dedicated to Augustus, Petr. 30, 2; Inscr. Orell. t. ii. p. 197 sq.; v. Augustalis. —

A member of a municipal directory of six men, Inscr. Grut. 418; 365, 3.

sexĭes or - ĭens, num. adv. [sex].

Six times:

hostis sexies victus,

Liv. 4, 32:

id sexies evenit per annos,

Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

hoc sexies ducendum est,

is to be taken six times, to be multiplied by six, Col. 5, 2 fin. —

For sextum, for the sixth time:

Mario sexies Valerioque Flacco Coss.,

Vell. 1, 15, 5.

sexĭes or - ĭens, num. adv. [sex].

Six times:

hostis sexies victus,

Liv. 4, 32:

id sexies evenit per annos,

Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 146:

hoc sexies ducendum est,

is to be taken six times, to be multiplied by six, Col. 5, 2 fin. —

For sextum, for the sixth time:

Mario sexies Valerioque Flacco Coss.,

Vell. 1, 15, 5.

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