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|lnetxt=sescenti-ae -a, sescentesimus -a -um, sesceni -ae -a, sexcentie(n)s NUM :: six hundred
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>ses-centi</b>: (less correctly [[sex]]-centi; cf. Ritschl Proleg. ad Plaut. p. 114), ae, a,<br /><b>I</b> num. [[card]]. adj. [[sex]]-[[centum]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop., [[six]] [[hundred]]: [[sescenti]] aurei nummi Philippii. Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 38: Romuli aetatem [[minus]] his sescentis annis fuisse cernimus, Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 18: argenti sescentum ac [[mille]], Lucil. ap. Non. 493, 32: [[curriculum]] [[longum]] sescentos [[pedes]], Gell. 1, 1, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., [[like]] [[our]] [[hundred]] or [[thousand]], to [[signify]] an [[immense]] [[number]], an [[innumerable]] [[quantity]], [[any]] [[amount]], etc. (perh. [[because]] the Roman cohorts consisted [[originally]] of [[six]] [[hundred]] men; [[very]] freq. in [[prose]] and [[poet]].): sescentae ad eam rem causae possunt colligi, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 62: sescentas [[proinde]] scribito jam mihi dicas: Nihil do, Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 63: [[venio]] ad epistulas tuas, quas ego sescentas uno tempore accepi, Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3: jam [[sescenti]] sunt, qui [[inter]] sicarios accusabant, id. Rosc. Am. 32, 90: sescentos cives Romanos, id. Verr. 2, 2, 48, § 119.—As subst.: sescenta, ōrum, n. plur., an [[immense]] [[number]] of things: sescenta sunt, quae memorem, si [[sit]] [[otium]], Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 41; cf. Cic. Div. 2, 14, 34; id. Att. 2, 19, 1; 6, 4, 1; 14, 12, 1: sescenta tanta reddam, si [[vivo]], [[tibi]], Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 111; so id. Ps. 2, 2, 37.
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{{Georges
|georg=sescentī, ae, a ([[sex]] u. [[centum]]), I) [[sechshundert]], Plaut., Cic. u.a. – II) meton. [[für]] eine unbestimmte große [[Zahl]], [[wie]] [[unser]] (an die) [[tausend]] = unzählige, [[Komik]]., Cic. u.a.; vgl. Brix Plaut. trin. 791. Garatoni Cic. Sest. 27, 59.
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