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* Num. ord. adj. [sex], the sixth, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 5: sextus ab urbe lapis,Ov. F. 2, 682: sextus decimus ab Hercule,Vell. 1, 6, 5: hic annus sextus, postquam ei rei operam damus,Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 9; id. Most. 4, 2, 41: sexto decimo anno,Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 57: sextus locus est, etc.,id. Inv. 1, 53, 102: sextus decimus (locus),id. ib. 1, 56, 109; Tac. A. 1, 17: sexta decima legio,id. ib. 1, 37 al.: sexta decima (sc. hora),Mart. Cap. 6, § 696; for which also, in one word: post sextumdecimum annum,the sixteenth,Liv. 30, 19: abdicat die sextodecimo,id. 4, 34: sextodecimo Calendas Jan.,Col. 11, 2, 94.—In gram.: sextus casus,the ablative case,Quint. 1, 4, 26.
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* Sextum, for the sixth time: in M. Catonis quartā Origine ita perscriptum est: Carthaginienses sextum de foedere decessere. Id verbum significat, quinquies ante eos fecisse contra foedus, et tum sextum,Gell. 10, 1, 10: sextum consul,Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—*
* Sextō, six times: lavit ad diem septimo aestate vel sexto, Treb. Gall. 17.