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|lshtext=<b>sēni</b>: ae, a (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. senūm, Cic. Verr. 2, 49, 122; Caes. B. C. 2, 15), num. distrib. [[sex]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> 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.
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