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sēmestris , e, adj. sex-mensis.
I. Of six months, half-yearly, semi-annual: dies, nox, lasting six months (far in the north), Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5: “regnum,Cic. Att. 10, 8, 7: “imperium,Caes. B. C. 1, 9: “dux,Liv. 21, 43, 15: “consulatus,Suet. Ner. 14: “tribunatus (militaris),Plin. Ep. 4, 4, 2; hence also, aurum, the ring of the tribunes (worn for six months): “semestri vatum digitos circumligat auro,Juv. 7, 89; cf. “also, consilia,Suet. Aug. 35: “spatium,Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 280: “filius,six months old, id. 11, 51, 112, § 270; so, “leones,id. 8, 16, 17, § 45; cf. “vita,id. 8, 39, 60, § 141: “aves, hirundines,id. 10, 25, 36, § 73.—
II. Plur. subst.: -mestrĭa , ium, n., the semi-annual collection of imperial ordinances, Dig. 2, 14, 46; 18, 7, 10 fin.; 29, 2, 12.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 10.8.7
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 35
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.9
    • Suetonius, Nero, 14
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.73
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.45
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.4.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 43
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