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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.

  1. A. Form sescenteni: sescenteni malleoli, Col. 3, 5, 3: urnae, id. 3, 9, 3; cf. Suet. Claud. 32; Mart. Cap. 6, § 610.
  2. 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].

  1. 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.
  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.