Sevo, a ridge of mountains between Norway and Sweden, now called Fiell, or Dofre. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 15.
Seuthes, a man who dethroned his monarch, &c.——A friend of Perdiccas, one of Alexander’s generals.——A Thracian king, who encouraged his countrymen to revolt, &c. This name is common to several of the Thracian princes.
Sextia, a woman celebrated for her virtue and her constancy, put to death by Nero. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 16, ch. 10.
Sextia Licinia lex, de Magistratibus, by Caius Licinius and Lucius Sextius the tribunes, A.U.C. 386. It ordained that one of the consuls should be elected from among the plebeians.——Another, de religione, by the same, A.U.C. 385. It enacted that a decemvirate should be chosen from the patricians and plebeians instead of the decemviri sacris faciundis.
Sextiæ Aquæ, now Aix, a place of Cisalpine Gaul, where the Cimbri were defeated by Marius. It was built by Caius Sextius, and is famous for its cold and hot springs. Livy, bk. 61.—Velleius Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 15.
Sextilia, the wife of Vitellius. She became mother of two children. Suetonius, Lives.——Another in the same family. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 2, ch. 64.
Sextilius, a governor of Africa, who ordered Marius, when he landed there, to depart immediately from his province. Marius heard this with some concern, and said to the messengers, “Go and tell your master that you have seen the exiled Marius sitting on the ruins of Carthage.” Plutarch, Caius Marius.——A Roman preceptor, who was seized and carried away by pirates, &c.——One of the officers of Lucullus.——Hæna, a poet. See: [♦]Hæna.——An officer sent to Germany, &c. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 3, ch. 7.
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Sextius, a lieutenant of Cæsar in Gaul.——A seditious tribune in the first ages of the republic.——Lucius was remarkable for his friendship with Brutus; he gained the confidence of Augustus, and was consul. Horace, who was in the number of his friends, dedicated bk. 1, ode 4, to him.——The first plebeian consul.——A dictator.——One of the sons of Tarquin. See: [Tarquinius].
Sextus, a prænomen given to the sixth son of a family.——A son of Pompey the Great. See: Pompeius.——A stoic philosopher, born at Cheronæa in Bœotia. Some suppose that he was Plutarch’s nephew. He was preceptor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.——A governor of Syria.——A philosopher in the age of Antoninus. He was one of the followers of the doctrines of Pyrrho. Some of his works are still extant. The best edition of the treatise of Sextus Pompeis Festus, Lexicon of Festus, is that of Amsterdam, 4to, 1669.