Sextius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.sti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.st̪i.us]

Sextius m sg (genitive Sextiī or Sextī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens famously held by:
   1. Lucius Sextius Lateranus, tribune of the plebs in 414 BC
   2. Lucius Sextius Lateranus, tribune of the plebs from 376 to 367 BC
   3. Gaius Sextius Calvinus, consul in 124 BC
   4. Quintus Sextius, a Sextian philosopher during the time of Caesar
   5. Titus Sextius, a legate of Julius Caesar
   6. Titus Sextius Africanus, consul in 59 AD
   7. Titus Sextius Magius Lateranus, consul in AD 94.
   8. Titus Sextius Cornelius Africanus, consul in AD 112 with the emperor Trajan.
   9. Titus Sextius Lateranus, consul in AD 154.
   10. Titus Sextius Magius Lateranus, consul in AD 197.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “Sextius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sextius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.