I.gen. plur. sexagenūm, Front. Aquaed. 55), num. distrib. adj. [sexaginta].
I. Lit., sixty each: “postremo in plures ordines instruebantur: ordo sexagenos milites habebat,” Liv. 8, 8, 4: SEXAGENOS DENARIOS VIRITIM DEDI, Monum. Ancyr. ap. Grut. 231: ibi scrobes effodito duplos sexagenos in die, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 751 P.; so, “pedes,” Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 3; cf. “sexagenos ternos pedes,” Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30: “propugnatores,” id. 8, 7, 7, § 22: “gerunt uterum (canes) sexagenis diebus,” id. 8, 40, 62, § 151; 10, 17, 19, § 39.—
II. Transf., for sexaginta, sixty: “sexagena milia modiūm,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53; of an indefinitely large number, Mart. 12, 26, 1.
