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seni

six each

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
De Otio 2 · 10.2/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 2 · 6.36/10k
De Senectute 5 · 6.05/10k
Maximini Duo 3 · 5.53/10k

Densest 12 of 113 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sēni — Lewis & Short

sēni, ae, a (

I gen. plur. senūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 49, 122; Caes. B. C. 2, 15), num. distrib. [sex].

I Lit., six each: cum in sex partes divisus exercitus Romanus senis horis in orbem succederet proelio, Liv. 6, 4: senos viros singuli currus vehebant, Curt. 8, 14, 3: ut tribuni militum seni deni (by many written in one word, senideni) in quattuor legiones crearentur, Liv. 9, 30; so, sena dena (or senadena) stipendia, Tac. A. 1, 36 fin.: senūm pedum crassitudo, Caes. B. C. 2, 15; cf.: pueri annorum senūm septenūmque denūm, sixteen and seventeen years old, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122.—

II Transf., for sex, six: tradiderat natalibus actis Bis puerum senis, past his twelfth birthday, Ov. M. 8, 243: sena vellera, id. ib. 12, 429: pedes, i. e. hexameter, Hor. S. 1, 10, 59: ictus (of the senarius), id. A. P. 253: latitudo ejus ne minus pedum senūm denūm (or senumdenum), Vitr. 6, 9.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. séni (scan p. 645; entry #10659).

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