Sextus
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Sextus is an ancient Roman praenomen or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is Sex., and the feminine form would be Sexta. It is one of the numeral praenomina, like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth". Although it is sometimes thought that these names originally referred to birth order and were then handed down through the family line, they may have also have been a reference to the month of birth. Similar names were used among the Sabellians. The gens name Sextius is a related form.[1]
Among those named Sextus are:
- Sextus Roscius
- Sextus Pompeius (younger son of Pompey the Great)
- Sextus Pompeius (relatives of Pompey the Great)
- Sextus Propertius
- Sextus Empiricus
- Sextus Appuleius
- Sextus Pomponius
- Sextus Martinianus
- Sextus Tarquinius
- Sextus Julius Africanus
- Sextus Julius Frontinus
- Sextus Julius Caesar
- Sextus Attius Varus
- Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus
- Sextus Afranius Burrus
- Sextus Cornelius Repentinus
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References
- ↑ E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites (Cambridge University Press, 1967, 2010), pp. 53, 156.
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