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|lshtext=<b>sexus</b>: ūs (<br /><b>I</b> abl. plur. sexibus, Spart. Hadr. 18, 10 al.; [[but]] sexubus, Jul. Val. Rer. G. Alex. 1, 36), m., or sĕcus, indecl. n. [[root]] sec- of [[seco]]; [[hence]] [[properly]], a [[division]], [[segment]].<br /><b>I</b> A [[sex]], [[male]] or [[female]] (of men and beasts).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[sexus]]: hominum [[genus]] et in sexu consideratur, [[virile]] an muliebre [[sit]], Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; cf.: [[natus]] ambiguo [[inter]] marem ac feminam sexu [[infans]], Liv. 27, 11; and: [[mare]] et femineum [[sexus]], App de Mundo, c. 20, p. 66 med.: feminarum [[sexus]], Plin. 7, 52, 53, § 175: [[virilis]] [[sexus]], Pac. ap. Fest. p. 334 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 70 Rib.); Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 154 [[orbus]] virili sexu, Afran. ap. Fest. l. l. (Com. Rel. p. 166 Rib.): [[liberi]] sexūs [[virilis]], Suet. Aug. 101; Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6: puberes [[virilis]] sexūs, Liv. 26, 34: [[tres]] ([[liberi]]) sexūs feminini, Suet. Calig. 7; cf. Plin. 27, 2, 2, § 4; cf.: juvenes utriusque sexūs, Suet. Aug. 31: [[liberi]], id. ib. 100; id. Vit. 6; id. Tib. 43: [[sine]] ullo sexūs discrimine, id. Calig. 8; Tac. A. 16, 10 fin. et saep.—Plur.: (συνεζευγμένον) jungit et diversos [[sexus]], ut cum marem feminamque filios dicimus, Quint. 9, 3, 63: lavacra pro sexibus separavit, Spart. Hadr. 18 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Form [[secus]] (in the poets and historians, in the [[latter]] [[usually]] [[virile]] or muliebre [[secus]], as an acc. resp. or limiting accusative, equivalent to the genitive or ablative of [[quality]]; v. Zumpt, Lat. Gram. § 428, for the [[preceding]] [[virilis]] sexūs, the [[male]] [[sex]]): filiolam ego unam habui, Virile [[secus]] [[numquam]] ullum habui, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 19: [[virile]] [[secus]], Asell. ap. Gell. 2, 13, 5: [[quod]] ejus [[virile]] [[secus]] futurum est, Varr. ib. 3, 10, 7: [[secus]] muliebre, Aus. Idyll. 11, 8: [[puerile]], id. Epigr. 70, 6: [[virile]] ac muliebre [[secus]] populi [[multitudo]], Sisenn. ap. Non. 222, 27: concurrentium [[undique]] [[virile]] et muliebre [[secus]], Sall. H. Fragm. ib. 25; and in Macr. S. 2, 9 (p. 228 Gerl.): ut [[Philippi]] statuae ... [[item]] majorum ejus [[virile]] ac muliebre [[secus]] omnium tollerentur, Liv 31, 44, 4: multitudinem obsessorum [[omnis]] aetatis, [[virile]] ac muliebre [[secus]], Tac. H. 5, 13: praedas hominum [[virile]] et muliebre [[secus]] agebant, Amm. 29, 6, 8 et saep.: liberorum [[capitum]] [[virile]] [[secus]] ad [[decem]] milia [[capta]], Liv. 26, 47, 1: athletarum spectaculo muliebre [[secus]] omnes [[adeo]] summovit, ut, etc., Suet. Aug. 44 fin.: [[destinatum]] Lacedaemoniis omnes [[virile]] [[secus]] interficere, Front. Strat. 1, 11, 6.—Rarely as nom.: affluxere avidi talium ... [[virile]] ac muliebre [[secus]], [[omnis]] [[aetas]], Tac. A. 4, 62: [[tres]] ordine partae, [[Vesta]], [[Ceres]] et [[Juno]], [[secus]] muliebre, sorores, Aus. Idyll. 11, 7; or as [[object]] of a [[verb]]: [[cur]] ex his unum [[secus]] [[virile]] designet, Arn. 1, 59; 5, 25: promiscue [[virile]] et muliebre [[secus]] trucidabant, Amm. 16, 11, 9; 27, 10, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[sex]], of plants and minerals, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 31; 12, 14, 32, § 61; 36, 16, 25, § 128; 36, 21, 39, § 149.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> The [[sexual]] organs, Plin. 22, 8, 9, § 20; Lact. 1, 21, 16.

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|georg=sexus, ūs, m. (zu secare), I) das männliche u. weibliche [[Geschlecht]], a) v. Menschen: hominum [[genus]] et in sexu consideratur, virile an muliebre sit, Cic.: [[liberi]] utriusque [[sexus]], Suet.: verenda utriusque [[sexus]], Plin.: [[sexus]] [[infirmus]] (v. weibl. Geschlechte), Lact.: u. so [[sexus]] [[infirmitas]], Lact.: [[sexus]] validior et infirmior, Augustin.: Plur., diversi [[sexus]], Quint.: [[quoniam]] sunt ex duobus sexibus nati, Lact. – v. Zwittern, homines utriusque [[sexus]], Plin.; vgl. [[natus]] [[ambiguo]] [[inter]] marem et feminam sexu [[infans]], [[Zwitter]], Liv. – b) v. Tieren, Plin. – c) v. Bäumen, Steinen usw., Plin. – II) meton., das Geschlechtsglied, Plin. 22, 20. Lact. 1, 21, 16. – / Abl. Plur. sexibus, Spart. Hadr. 18, 10. Lact. 1, 8, 4; 1, 16, 16. Arnob. 3, 20 u. 7, 19: [[aber]] sexubus, Iul. Val. 1, 36 (35).

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