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                    "description": "saeptum | sēp- (noun N) : (), ,  id. (class.; usu. plur.).\n* Prop.\n* In gen., a fence, en closure, wall, etc.; plur. absol.: nunc de saeptis, quae tutandi causā fundi, aut partis fiant, dicam,Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1; cf. the context: quibus enim saeptis tam immanes beluas continebimus?Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5: saxea saepta,id. ib. 4, 701: saepta candentia,Mart. Cap. 2, § 108: nisi saeptis revolsis,Cic. Phil. 5, 4, 9.—With gen.: transit fulmen caeli per saepta domorum,Lucr. 1, 490; cf. id. 6, 228; 6, 860.—Sing.: AEDICVLAM, ARAM, SAEPTVM, CLVSVM, VETVSTATE DIRVTA RESTITVIT,Inscr. Orell. 1515.\n* Meton.\n* In gen., any enclosed place, an enclosure: ut intra saepta (sc. villae) habeat aquam,Varr. R. R. 1, 11, 2.\n* Esp.\n* Any thing used for enclosing, etc.; hence\n* A fish-pond or preserve: animadvertimus intra saepta pelagios greges inertis mugilis,Col. 8, 17, 8.\n* Plur., a large enclosed place in the Campus Martius, where the people assembled to vote, and where were many handsome shops: cum ille in saepta irruisset,Cic. Mil. 15, 41: est (sc. dies) quoque, quo populum jus est includere saeptis,Ov. F. 1, 53; cf. Mart. 9, 60, 1.\n* Saeptum venationis, a park, warren, preserve, enclosed hunting-ground, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 2; cf. the context.\n* A palisade, stake, pale: inermem tribunum adoriantur fragmentis saeptorum et fustibus,Cic. Sest. 37, 79.\n* A sluice, flood-gate, Dig. 43, 21, 1, § 4.\n* Medic. t. t., the diaphragm, midriff: jecur ... ab ipso saepto orsum,Cels. 4, 1; cf. id. 5, 26, 15; 7, 4, 2; called also transversum saeptum,id. 4, 1."
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