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sentīna , ae, f.
II. Transf., the bottom of a ship where the bilge-water is, the hold: “hi Romam sicuti in sentinam confluxerant,Sall. C. 37, 5: sedebamus in puppi et clavum tenebamus; “nunc autem vix est in sentinā locus,Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 3.—
III. Trop.
1. The lowest of the people, the dregs, refuse, rabble of a state or city (good prose; cf. “faex): si tu exieris, exhaurietur ex urbe tuorum comitum magna et perniciosa sentina rei publicae,Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 12; 2, 4, 7 (cf. Quint. 8, 6, 15); id. Att. 1, 19, 4; id. Agr. 2, 26, 70; Liv. 24, 29, 3; Flor. 3, 1, 4.—
2. The hangerson of an army, camp-followers, Val. Max. 2, 7, 1.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.15.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.19.4
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 1.5.12
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.26.70
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.28
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 37
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 29
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 6
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 6.15
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.1.3
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 30.2
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 2.7.1
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