The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

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Salutare Deos] after a devout & reverent maner they bowed unto the Idols or gods of the heathen as they passed by, & withall, touched their hands: which Lucretius sheweth in these verses,

—Tum portas propter, aliena Signa manus dextras ostendunt attenuari Saepe salutantum, tactu praeterque meantum.

Sceleratus Vicus, a street in Rome named before∣time Cyprius, which in the Sabine language signifieth [good:] but upon occasion of a wic∣ked act committed therin, it was by the con∣trarie, called Sceleratus.

Secession, was a generall insurrection and revolt of the commons in Rome, wherein they left the cittie, untill such time as they had the autho∣ritie, of their Tribuns strengthened & confir∣med: yea and certaine lawes enacted and established by a solemne oth, with a curse de∣nounced to all them that went about to abro∣gate or abolish the same: which thereupon were called Sacrataleges.

• ...Sex. Sextus.
• ...Serg. Sergius.
• ...Serv. Servius.

All, forenames to Ro∣mans

Sextilis, the month of August, so called by the Romanes before Augustus Caesar his daies, for that it was the sixt in number: as Quintilis the fift, beginning at March.

Suburra. 97 a. In Iuventutem grassantem in Suburra. It might well be that yonkers there made a fray or committed some roiot and felonie: for it was a street most of all others frequented; and besides, in it kept strumpets and courtisanes, like enough to give occasion of much quar∣rell and misrule among youth, as appeareth by Iuvenal and Martial in this Distichon.

Famae non nimium bonae, puellae, Quales in media sedent Suburra.

Suffrages, were the voices of the people given by Cēturies, Curiae, or tribes, which in Rome wēt affirmatively under this forme, Vti rogas, i. be it according to your bill: and negatively thus, Antiquo, i. I denie or reject it.

Sordidati, were they that chaunged their weed in reatu.i (whiles either thēselves or their friends were in trouble and daunger of judgement) that is to say, put off white, which was the or∣dinarie colour, and did on blacke: but if they chaunged their apparrell upon sorrow and mourning for the losse of friends or any pub∣licke calamitie, they were called rather Pulla∣ti and Atrati.

Sella Curulis, a seat or chaire of estate. One of the regall ornaments at Rome, belonging to the kings first: afterwards, during the free state, used by Dictators, Consuls, Pro-consuls, Pre∣tours, and Propretours, Censours and Aediles, namely those called Curules, for distinction from those that were Plebeij: and last of all, by the emperours in the time of the monar∣chie. This chaire was made of Ivorie: on which the abovesaid magistrates usually sat, not onely in the Senat-house when they con∣sulted or gave audience, or when they be∣held the publicke games and plaies, and rode either in triumph, or otherwise in the strets, mounted upon their Chariotes: but also at home within their private houses, and wheresoever else it pleased them. And this badge or ensigne of honor they had both in time of their magistracie, & afterwards. And as such Senatours were called Curules (for the rest, who had not atteined to those digni∣ties, they named Pedanei, as some thinke, for that they went on foot to the Senat or places before mētioned) so those magistrats likewise abovesaid, were entituled by the name of Cu∣rule. And Curulis was that chair called either of Currus a chariot, for that they sate thereupon within their chariots; or, quasi Curva, because it was made crooked or curb-wise, like: unto our folding chaires.

Senatour, A Counsailour of state. A name it was of honour, and not of age, as the word implieth: for to that place mē attained often times ve∣ry young. Senat was the bodie of that degree

and common Counsell, opposite unto Plebs at Rome, namely when it was biceps, and the whole people comprehended under Sena∣torius ordo and Plebeius.

Sextans, a small brasen peece of money at Rome, which being the sixt part of As, commeth to a cue or halfe a farthing.

Sextarius was the Basis of measures in Rome, as As of weights: and looke ho: v As was divided into twelve ownces, so Sextarius into twelve Cyathi, and in measures Sextans was the sixth part of Sextarius, which weighed twentie oun∣ces, much about a wine pint and a halfe a∣mong us.

Of Sibyls bookes so often mentioned in Livie, which being three in number, were bought of Sibylla by king Tarquin the proud, at the price of nine, after she had burned sixe of them be∣fore his face: which bookes were kept dili∣gently in the Capitoll: and wherout the De∣cemvirs by their learning made report of the will and pleasure of the gods, See A. Gellius. 1. booke 19 chapter.

Signum, was the generall name of all the ensigns in the field. But Aquila more particularly was the maine standerd to a whole legion: so cal∣led, for that upon the top of a speare was rea∣red and fastned an Eagle in silver at full re∣liefe, and the same sometime was gylded stan∣ding upon a base or football of the same met∣tall. The other ensignes, as well of cohorts, which were bands of five hundred men usu∣ally, as of centuries, i. companies of hundreds, named more especially Vexilla, & were gene∣rally called Signa, had the portaiture of Mino∣taures, wolves, bores, horses, dragons, with sundrie other devises according to the fancie of the Colonels or captaines, containing also the name of the cohort or Centurie, and the legion to which they belonged.