I.num. ord. adj. [sex], the sixth, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 5: “sextus ab urbe lapis,” Ov. F. 2, 682: “sextus decimus ab Hercule,” Vell. 1, 6, 5: “hic annus sextus, postquam ei rei operam damus,” Plaut. Men. 2, 1, 9; id. Most. 4, 2, 41: “sexto decimo anno,” Cic. Rep. 2, 33, 57: “sextus locus est, etc.,” id. Inv. 1, 53, 102: “sextus decimus (locus),” id. ib. 1, 56, 109; Tac. A. 1, 17: “sexta decima legio,” id. ib. 1, 37 al.: “sexta decima (sc. hora),” Mart. Cap. 6, § 696; “for which also, in one word: post sextumdecimum annum,” the sixteenth, Liv. 30, 19: “abdicat die sextodecimo,” id. 4, 34: “sextodecimo Calendas Jan.,” Col. 11, 2, 94.—In gram.: “sextus casus,” the ablative case, Quint. 1, 4, 26.—
B. Advv.
1. sextum , for the sixth time: “in M. Catonis quartā Origine ita perscriptum est: Carthaginienses sextum de foedere decessere. Id verbum significat, quinquies ante eos fecisse contra foedus, et tum sextum,” Gell. 10, 1, 10: “sextum consul,” Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—*
2. sextō , six times: lavit ad diem septimo aestate vel sexto, Treb. Gall. 17.
