Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Sestiānae Arae, Sextans

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S - The Seven Sages

Sagitta - Salutatio

Salve - Sardemisus

Sardes - Satyrĭcon

Satyrus - Scarpōna

Scodra - Scymnus

Scyphus - Selēné

Seleucīa - Septerion

Septimius Geta - Sestertius

Sestiānae Arae - Sicca Veneria

Sestiānae Arae

The Seven against Thebes

The Seven Sages

The Seven Sleepers of Ephĕsus

Seven Wonders of the World

Sevērus , A. Caecina

Arch of Sevērus

Sevērus , Cornelius

Sevērus , Flavius Valerius

Sevērus , Libius

Sevērus , Lucius Septimius

Sevērus , Marcus Aurelius Alexander

Sevērus , Sulpicius

Sextius Calvīnus

Sextus Empirĭcus

Ships and Shipping

Sibyllīni Libri

Sicāni, Sicĕli, Siceliōtae

Sichaeus - Bearers of Silver Shields

Silvium - Sităcé

Sitalces - Soli

Solĭdus - Spartăcus

Spartăcus - Stabiae

Stable - Steward

Stheneboea - Stroma

Stromăta - Suggestus

Suggrundarium - Sylae

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Sextans

A Roman copper coin weighing two ounces (unciae), and equal to the sixth part of the as. It bore the effigy of a caduceus and a strigil.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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