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{{Wiktionary|Sextus}}
'''Sextus''' is an [[Ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] ''[[praenomen]]'' or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is '''Sex.''', and the [[grammatical gender|feminine]] form would be '''Sexta'''. It is one of the numeral ''praenomina'', like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth". Although it is sometimes thought that these names originally referred to birth order and were then handed down through the family line, they may have also been a reference to the month of birth. Similar names were used among the [[Sabellians]]. The ''[[gens]]'' name [[Sextia gens|Sextius]] is a related form.<ref>E.T. Salmon, ''Samnium and the Samnites'' (Cambridge University Press, 1967, 2010), pp. 53, 156.</ref>
Among those named Sextus are:
* [[Sextus Julius Africanus]]
* [[Sextus Appuleius]]
* [[Sextus Afranius Burrus]]
* [[Sextus Julius Caesar (disambiguation)|Sextus Julius Caesar]]
* [[Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus]]
* [[Sextus of Chaeronea]] (nephew of [[Plutarch]], he and [[Sextus Empiricus]] may be one and the same)
* [[Sextus Empiricus]] (he and [[Sextus of Chaeronea]] may be one and the same)
* [[Sextus Julius Frontinus]]
* [[Sextus Martinianus]]
* [[Tigidius Perennis|Sextus Tigidius Perennis]]
* [[Sextus Pompey|Sextus Pompeius]] (younger son of Pompey the Great)
* [[Sextus Pompeius (relatives of triumvir Pompey)|Sextus Pompeius]] (relatives of Pompey the Great)
*[[Sextus Pompeius Festus]] (latter 2nd century), a Roman grammarian
* [[Sextus Pomponius]]
* [[Sextus Propertius]]
* [[Sextus Cornelius Repentinus (prefect)|Sextus Cornelius Repentinus]]
* [[Sextus Roscius]]
* [[Sextus Julius Severus]]
* [[Sextus Tarquinius]]
* [[Sextus Attius Varus]]
*[[Sextus (theologian)|Sextus]], 2nd century AD theologian
== See also ==
* [[Bissextus]]
*''[[Sentences of Sextus]]''
==References==
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[[Category:Ancient Roman prosopographical lists]]
[[hu:Sextus]]