(adjective) : sex (also written VI., and in inscrr. SEXS; cf. Inscr. Orell. 3745), cf. Sanscr. shash, Gr. ἕξ, Goth. saihs, Germ. sechs, Engl. six
* Six: sex minae,Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 21: dies,id. Cist. 2, 1, 13: menses,Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 46; id. Ad. 3, 3, 42: sex aut septem loca,Lucr. 4, 577: suffragia,Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39: sex et nonaginta,id. ib.: sex et quinquaginta milia passuum,id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: decem et sex milia peditum armati,Liv. 37, 40: inter Bis sex famulas (= duodecim),Ov. M. 4, 220; Verg. A. 9, 272: sex septem,six or seven,Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 41; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58; v. septem, sex primi, sexprimi.