the lagunes at the mouth of the Po

septem, num. adj. indecl. [Sanscr. saptan; Gr. hepta; Goth. sibun; Germ. sieben; Engl. seven], seven: septem menses sunt, quom, etc., Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 39:

septem milia,

id. Mil. 1, 1, 46:

dis, quibus septem placuere colles,

Hor. C. S. 7:

septem et decem,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 89:

decem et septem,

Liv. 33, 21, 8; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2:

decem septemque,

Nep. Cato, 1, 2:

decem septem,

Liv. 24, 15, 2 Weissenb.; cf. Prisc. p. 1170 P.;

v. also septendecim: septem et viginti minae,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 94:

septem et triginta annos,

Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 17; Liv. 1, 21 fin.:

sex aut septem loca,

Lucr. 4, 577;

also unconnected: illum his mensibus Sex septem non vidisse proximis,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 40; so,

sex septem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58.—With numerals:

VI. VII. diebus,

Cic. Att. 10, 8, 6 Orell. N. cr.:

septem miracula,

the seven wonders of the world, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30; Val. Max. 4, 6, 1 ext.; so, septem mira, Lact. 3, 24, 2:

septem spectacula,

Vitr. 2, 8, 11; cf. Gell. 10, 18, 4.—

In partic.

As subst., the seven sages of Greece:

eos vero septem, quos Graeci sapientes nominaverunt,

Cic. Rep. 1, 7, 12; id. Tusc. 5, 3, 7; id. Lael. 2, 7; id. de Or. 3, 34, 137; id. Fin. 2, 3, 7; id. Off. 3, 4, 16:

qui (Bias) sapiens habitus est unus e septem,

id. Lael. 16, 59:

Thales, qui sapientissimus in septem fuit,

id. Leg. 2, 11, 26.—

Septem Aquae, a lake in the Reatine territory, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5.—

Septem Stellae, for septentriones, the seven-stars, the Pleiades, Sen. Troad. 443.—

Septem Maria, the lagunes at the mouth of the Po, where Venice was afterwards founded, Plin. 3, 15, 16, § 119; Tac. H. 3, 9.