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* sescēnāris, e, adj. [deriv. and signif. unknown]: bovis sescenaris jecur, Liv. 41, 15, 1 (but the conjectural correction to sescennalis or sexennis is improbable) Weissenb. ad loc.
sescēni, v. sescenteni.
sescentēni, also sescēni (less cor. rectly sexc-), ae, a, num. distrib. adj. [sescenti], six hundred each.
- A. Form sescenteni: sescenteni malleoli, Col. 3, 5, 3: urnae, id. 3, 9, 3; cf. Suet. Claud. 32; Mart. Cap. 6, § 610.
- B. Form sesceni: Varro prodidit, singula jugera vinearum sescenas urnas vini praebuisse, Col. 3, 3, 2 nummi, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 62: denaril equitibus tributi, Curt. 5, 1, 45: annua, Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 7.
sescentēsĭmus (less correctly sexc-) a, um, num. ord. adj. [id.], the six hundredth: anno sescentesimo. Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58 Mai N. cr.: anno Urbis sescentesimo quinquagesimo quinto, Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 19.
ses-centi (less correctly sex-centi; cf. Ritschl Proleg. ad Plaut. p. 114), ae, a, num. card. adj. [sex-centum].
- I. Prop., six hundred: sescenti aurei nummi Philippii. Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 38: Romuli aetatem minus his sescentis annis fuisse cernimus, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18: argenti sescentum ac mille, Lucil. ap. Non. 493, 32: curriculum longum sescentos pedes, Gell. 1, 1, 2.
- II. Meton., like our hundred or thousand, to signify an immense number, an innumerable quantity, any amount, etc. (perh. because the Roman cohorts consisted originally of six hundred men; very freq. in prose and poet.): sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt colligi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62: sescentas proinde scribito jam mihi dicas: Nihil do, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 63: venio ad epistulas tuas, quas ego sescentas uno tempore accepi, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3: jam sescenti sunt, qui inter sicarios accusabant, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 90: sescentos cives Romanos, id. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 119.
As subst.: sescenta, ōrum, n. plur., an immense number of things: sescenta sunt, quae memorem, si sit otium, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 41; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; id. Att. 2, 19, 1; 6, 4, 1; 14, 12, 1: sescenta tanta reddam, si vivo, tibi, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so id. Ps. 2, 2, 37.
sescentĭes (less correctly sexc-), num. adv. [sescenti], six hundred times: sescenties HS., six hundred times a hundred thousand, sixty millions of sesterces, Cic. Att. 4, 16 C, 14; so, sestertium sescenties, Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 13: sescenties vicies, Lampr. Commod. 15 (in Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 8, the true read. is sescentos).
Sescentō-plāgus, i, m. [sescentiplaga], a man of six hundred stripes, a name coined by Plautus: nisi cottidiano sesquiopus confeceris, Sescentoplago nomen indetur tibi, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 68.