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* Gen. plur. only septenūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122; Col. 12, 28, 1), num. distrib. adj. [septem].
* Seven each: a summo septenis cyathis committe hos ludos,Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 19: duo fasces, candelis involuti, septenos habuere libros,Liv. 40, 29; Col. 1, 3, 10; Plin. 7, 25, 25, § 91 (dub.); 17, 10, 11, § 64.—Gen.: amphorarum septenum,Col. 12, 28, 1: pueri annorum senum septenumque denum,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122.
* Transf., for septem, seven: dispar septenis fistula cannis,Ov. M. 2, 682: fila lyrae,id. F. 5, 105: quā septenas temperat unda vias (the seven mouths of the Nile), Prop. 3 (4), 22, 16; cf. in the foll.: homo crescit in longitudinem ad annos usque ter septenos,Plin. 11, 37, 87, § 216: bis septenos greges,Sen. Herc. Oet. 1850.—Sing., sevenfold (poet. and in postAug. prose): gurgite septeno rapidus mare submovet amnis (Nilus),Luc. 8, 445: gurges Nili,Claud. in Rufin. 1, 185: Ister (the seven-mouthed Danube), Stat. S. 5, 2, 136 (cf. septemplex): non removeri septeno circuitu,Plin. 28, 16, 66, § 228.