While Licinius ' co-emperor Sextus Martinianus was killed, Licinius himself was spared due to the pleas of his wife, Constantine's sister, and interned at Thessalonica.

* Gaius Licinius Imbrex, a Latin comic poet, quoted by Aulus Gellius and Sextus Pompeius Festus.

Sextus Varius Marcellus was a Roman of equestris class, but was later elevated to the rank of senator.

His paternal grandfather was senator Sextus Quinctilius Varus.

His father was Sextus Quinctilius Varus, a senator aligned with the conservative republicans in the civil war against Julius Caesar.

This is one of the strongest indications of the HAs late fourth-century date, as it seems to be a fairly transparent allusion to the rich and powerful senator Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus ( consul in 371 ) whose two sons held the consulship together in 395.

He must have lived after Sextus Empiricus ( c. 200 AD ), whom he mentions, and before Stephanus of Byzantium and Sopater ( c. 500 AD ), who quote him.

Nothing is known of his life except that his family was poor and undistinguished, and that he owed everything to Sextus Pompeius ( consul AD 14 ), proconsul of Asia, whom he accompanied to the East in 27.

* Sextus Clodius, a Sicilian rhetorician, under whom Marcus Antonius studied oratory, and whom he rewarded with a large estate in the Leontine territory.

His brother was the father of another Sextus Pompeius and Quintus Pompeius, the first of whom was the father of another Sextus Pompeius, Consul in 35 BC ( not to be confused with Sextus Pompeius, enemy of the Triumvirate, who died the same year ), in turn the father of still another Sextus Pompeius.

Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Augustus ' opponents in the East, remain equally anonymous ; the former is " he with whom I fought the war ," while the latter is merely a " pirate.

Prior to the explanation above, the explanation of Sextus Julius Africanus that there had been a levirate marriage and that Joseph's grandfather Mattan ( descendant of Solomon ) had had a wife called " Esther " ( not recorded in the Bible ) with whom he fathered Jacob ( Joseph's father ), but Matthan died and Esther married Heli's father Melchi ( descendant of Nathan ).

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

* Sextus ( possibly Gaius ) Julius Saturninus

Sextus Pompey becomes supreme commander of the Roman navy and Gaius Cassius proconsul of Syria.

* Sextus Pompeius defeats with three legions Gaius Furnius, the governor of Asia, and seized Nicaea and Nicomedia ( modern Izmit ).

In 35 BC he supported Gaius Furnius, governor of Asia against Sextus Pompeius.

For example, the Cornelii used Aulus, Gnaeus, Lucius, Marcus, Publius, Servius, and Tiberius ; the Julii limited themselves to Lucius, Gaius, Sextus, and Vopiscus ; the Claudii were fond of Appius, Gaius, and Publius ; the Postumii favored Aulus, Gaius, Lucius, Publius, and Spurius ; and so on.

By the 1st century B. C., the praenomina remaining in general use at Rome were: Appius, Aulus, Caeso, Decimus, Gaius, Gnaeus, Lucius, Mamercus, Manius, Marcus, Numerius, Publius, Quintus, Servius, Sextus, Spurius, Titus, and Tiberius.

By the 2nd century A. D., several of these names had also passed out of general use at Rome, leaving Aulus, Decimus, Gaius, Gnaeus, Lucius, Manius, Marcus, Numerius, Publius, Quintus, Sextus, Titus, and Tiberius.

The only other praenomen appearing under the Republic is Marcus, known as the father of Gaius Sulpicius Peticus, five times consul during the 4th century BC The last of the Sulpicii known to have held the consulship, in the 2nd century, was named Sextus, a praenomen otherwise unknown in the gens.

The Atilii favored the praenomina Lucius, Marcus, Gaius, Aulus, and Sextus.

The Julii of the Republic used the praenomina Lucius, Gaius, Sextus, and Vopiscus, of which the last was rare.

Sextus ( possibly Gaius ) Julius Saturninus ( died 280 ) was a Roman usurper against Emperor Probus.

* Gaius Julius Caesar I, son of Sextus Julius Caesar I

* Gaius Julius Caesar ( proconsul of Asia, 90s BC ) ( d. 85 BC ), great-grandson of Sextus Julius Caesar

Marcus and Sextus, however, are not so fearful, and accompany Gaius to the dining area, where they are told a frightening story by a soldier staying in the inn.

His sons were Gaius Julius Caesar I and Sextus Julius Caesar II.

Quaestor in 48 BC, Sextus was a close friend and follower of his cousin Gaius Julius Caesar the dictator and commanded one of his Syrian legions in 47 BC, being murdered in a mutiny ( 46 BC ).

* Gaius Sextus, Gaius Septimus, and Gaius Octavian aka Tavi, Codex Alera

* Sextus Marius, 33 AD

His son, Sextus, pretending to be ill-treated by his father, and covered with the bloody marks of stripes, fled to Gabii.

In a second reference, Sextus says " According to him there are three ways in which a conditional may be true, and one in which it may be false.

Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus first questioned the validity of inductive reasoning, positing that a universal rule could not be established from an incomplete set of particular instances.

Although the criterion argument applies to both deduction and induction, Weintraub believes that Sextus ' argument " is precisely the strategy Hume invokes against induction: it cannot be justified, because the purported justification, being inductive, is circular.

Sextus did not think such a general suspension of judgment to be impractical, since we may live without any beliefs, acting by habit.

It must also be remembered that by " dogma " Sextus means " assent to something non-evident adēlos " ( PH I, 16 ).

Yet another hypothesis for reconciling the numbers cited by Livy for combined strength of the two consular armies and the actual number of participants in the battle of the Trebia would be that Sempronius detached part of his allied contingents for garrison duty on Sicily and for naval service with Marcus Aemilius and Sextus Pomponius.

The earliest account of associating the Meditrinalia with such a goddess was by 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the basis of which she is asserted by modern sources to be the Roman goddess of health, longevity and wine, with an etymological meaning of " healer " suggested by some.

( To be read: Georgius Sextus Dei gratiâ Magnae Britanniae, Hiberniae, et terrarum transmarinarum quae in Ditione sunt Britannicâ, Rex, Fidei Defensor, Indiae Imperator )

Aristotle speaks of Hippasus as holding the element of fire to be the cause of all things ; and Sextus Empiricus contrasts him with the Pythagoreans in this respect, that he believed the arche to be material, whereas they thought it was incorporeal, namely, number.

His governorship was assisted by the arrival of Sextus Varius Marcellus as provincial procurator and in who can be seen the germ of the later division of Britain into two provinces.

" Elagabalus " was son of Sextus Varius Marcellus, a Syrian, and Julia Soaemis, daughter of Julia Maesa ( the younger sister of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus ); he was therefore nephew of the late " Caracalla ", whose natural son he claimed to be ( note that he took the same name as Caracalla upon donning the purple ).

Some commentators have argued that Collins's " experimenter's regress " is foreshadowed by Sextus Empiricus ' argument that " if we shall judge the intellects by the senses, and the senses by the intellect, this involves circular reasoning inasmuch as it is required that the intellects should be judged first in order that the intellects may be tested we possess no means by which to judge objects " ( quoted after Godin & Gingras 2002: 140 ).

Origen quotes Sextus on self-castration, a widespread habit among ascetic early Christians, which Origen deplores, and mentions in passing that the work is one " that many considered to be tested by time.

" It is not to be confused with the common Roman name " Sextus ," meaning " sixth ," though not necessarily denoting a sixth child.

" seems to be a quip at the expense of those who continue to revere the idealistic " lies " and to dismiss works that draw on valuable traditional texts, such as Pound's own Homage to Sextus Propertius.