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nongenti (nōningenti, Col. 5, 2, 7), ae, a,

  1. I. adj. card., nine hundred: ab uno ad nongenta … a mille ad nongenta milia, Varr. R. R. 3, 49: Falcidius emerat HS. nongentis milibus, Cic. Fl. 37, 91.
  2. II. In sing.: nongentus, i, m., one of nine hundred inspectors of the ballot-boxes: praeter hos etiamnum nongenti vocabantur ex omnibus electi ad custodiendas suffragiorum cistascum alius se nongentum, alius selectum appellaret, Plin. 33, 1, 7, § 31.