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Sextilis

Sextilis · adj

sixth

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Where it lives

Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 1 · 58.48/10k
Pro L. Flacco 4 · 3.67/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Letters to Atticus 20 · 1.63/10k
Historiae 4 · 0.78/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3 · 0.6/10k
Philippicae 3 · 0.57/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Sextīlis — Lewis & Short

Sextīlis, e, adj.sextus,

I sixth, only with mensis, of the month of August: MENSE SEXTILI, S. C. ap. Macr. S. 1, 12 fin.: Sextili menso caminus, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 19. —Hence, subst.: Sextīlis, is, m. (sc. mensis), the sixth (month); hence, the month of August, acc. to the old Roman reckoning (counting from March), afterwards called Augustus (v. h. v., and cf. Varr. L. L. 6, 4 fin.), Cic. Fam. 10, 26, 1: Sextilem totum mendax desideror, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 2: Kalendae, of August, Liv. 3, 6; 6, 1 fin.: Nonae, Idus, id. 41, 16.

Where it came from

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