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septem ,
I.num. adj. indecl. [Sanscr. saptan; Gr. ἑπτά; Goth. sibun; Germ. sieben; Engl. seven], seven: septem menses sunt, quom, etc., Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 39: “septem milia,id. Mil. 1, 1, 46: “dis, quibus septem placuere colles,Hor. C. S. 7: “septem et decem,Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 89: “decem et septem,Liv. 33, 21, 8; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2: “decem septemque,Nep. Cato, 1, 2: “decem septem,Liv. 24, 15, 2 Weissenb.; cf. Prisc. p. 1170 P.; “v. also septendecim: septem et viginti minae,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 94: “septem et triginta annos,Cic. Rep. 2, 10, 17; Liv. 1, 21 fin.: “sex aut septem loca,Lucr. 4, 577; “also unconnected: illum his mensibus Sex septem non vidisse proximis,Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 40; so, “sex septem,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58.—With numerals: “VI. VII. diebus,Cic. Att. 10, 8, 6 Orell. N. cr.: “septem miracula,the seven wonders of the world, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30; Val. Max. 4, 6, 1 ext.; so, septem mira, Lact. 3, 24, 2: “septem spectacula,Vitr. 2, 8, 11; cf. Gell. 10, 18, 4.—
II. In partic.
B. Septem Aquae, a lake in the Reatine territory, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5.—
C. Septem Stellae, for septentriones, the seven-stars, the Pleiades, Sen. Troad. 443.—
D. Septem Maria, the lagunes at the mouth of the Po, where Venice was afterwards founded, Plin. 3, 15, 16, § 119; Tac. H. 3, 9.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 10.8.6
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 4.15.5
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 4.2
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 2.2
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 2.8.11
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.9
    • Plautus, Mercator, 2.3
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 1.1
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.34
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.577
    • Cornelius Nepos, Cato, 1.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.30
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 2.17.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 15
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 33, 21.8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 21
    • Seneca, Troades, 443
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 2.11
    • Cicero, De Republica, 1.7
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    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.3
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 2
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    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.3
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.18.4
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 4.6.1
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