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septeni

Seven each

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Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Parentalia 2 · 7.7/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 4.89/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k

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What it meant

septēni — Lewis & Short

septēni, ae, a (

I gen. plur. only septenūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49, § 122; Col. 12, 28, 1), num. distrib. adj. [septem].

I 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.—

II 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.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. septéni (scan p. 639; entry #10552).

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