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Sextus is an ancient Roman praenomen or "first name". Its standard abbreviation is Sex. , and the feminine form would be Sexta . It is one of the numeral praenomina , like Quintus ("fifth") and Decimus ("tenth"), and means "sixth".
Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. [1] His Roman name, Sextus, implies he was a Roman citizen. [2] The Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as Sextus of Chaeronea, [3] as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted. [4]
Sextus (Latin pronunciation: [ˈsɛkstʊs]), feminine Sexta, is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was common throughout all periods of Roman history. It was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gentes Sextia and Sextilia .
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius (c. 67 – 35 BC), also known in English as Sextus Pompey, was a Roman military leader who, throughout his life, upheld the cause of his father, Pompey the Great, against Julius Caesar and his supporters during the last civil wars of the Roman Republic.
Sextus Tarquinius was one of the sons of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. In the original account of the Tarquin dynasty presented by Fabius Pictor , he is the second son, between Titus and Arruns . [ 1 ]
The Sentences of Sextus, also called the Sayings of Sextus, is a Hellenistic Pythagorean collection of maxims which was popular among Christians and translated into several languages. The identity of the Sextus who originated the collection is unknown.
Sixtus of Reims (d. c. 300), bishop of Reims; Sixtus of Esztergom (d. 1285/86), Hungarian clergyman; Sixtus of Siena (1520–1569), Jewish Roman Catholic theologian; Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886–1934)
The Suda (a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia based on many ancient sources that have since been lost) identifies Sextus of Chaeronea as being a student of Herodotus of Tarsus and being the same person as Sextus Empiricus, in which case Sextus would be a Pyrrhonist. [3] Diogenes Laertius also says that Sextus Empiricus was a student of ...