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Sejus

Sejus · m

a Roman name

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Where it lives

Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 2 · 1.32/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 3 · 0.26/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Sējus — Lewis & Short

Sējus or Sēius, i, m.,

I a Roman name, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 7; 3, 2, 11 sq.; Cic. Planc. 5, 12; id. Off. 2, 17, 58; Tac. A. 2, 20; 4, 1; 6, 7 al.—Hence,

II Sējānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sejus, Sejan: aedes, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 7 fin.: pastiones, id. ib. 3, 2, 7, § 12: equus, the horse of a certain Cn. Sejus, that brought misfortune to him and to all subsequent possessors: hinc proverbium de hominibus calamitosis ortum dicique solitum: ille homo habet equum Sejanum, Gell. 3, 9, 6.—

B Subst.: L. Aelius Sejanus, son of Sejus Strabo, the powerful praefectus praetorii of Tiberius, Tac. A. 4, 1 sq.; Tib. 55 sq.—Hence, Sējānĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to L. Ælius Sejanus: satellites, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 2: Sejanianum jugum, id. ib. 1, 3.

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