sexageni

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sexāgēni, ae, a (gen. plur. sexagenūm, Front. Aquaed. 55), num. distrib. adj. [sexaginta].

I Lit., sixty each : postremo in plures ordines instruebantur: ordo sexagenos milites habebat, Liv. 8, 8, 4: SEXAGENOS DENARIOS VIRITIM DEDI, Monum. Ancyr. ap. Grut. 231: ibi scrobes effodito duplos sexagenos in die, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 751 P.; so, pedes, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 3; cf. sexagenos ternos pedes, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30: propugnatores, id. 8, 7, 7, § 22: gerunt uterum (canes) sexagenis diebus, id. 8, 40, 62, § 151; 10, 17, 19, § 39.—

II Transf., for sexaginta, sixty : sexagena milia modiūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53; of an indefinitely large number , Mart. 12, 26, 1.

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