sextanorum

Updated: May 26, 2025

35. -Julia Equestris-, where the last surname is to be taken as in other colonies of Caesar the surnames of sextanorum, decimanorum, etc. It was Celtic or German horsemen of Caesar, who, of course with the bestowal of the Roman or, at any rate, Latin franchise, received land-allotments there.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

35. -Julia Equestris-, where the last surname is to be taken as in other colonies of Caesar the surnames of sextanorum, decimanorum, etc. It was Celtic or German horsemen of Caesar, who, of course with the bestowal of the Roman or, at any rate, Latin franchise, received land-allotments there.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The office of this Tiberius was to portion out the land among the veteran soldiers, six thousand men of the Sixth Legion occupied the town and country round such of it, at all events, as was not under water and thenceforth the city took the name of Arelate Sextanorum. Tacitus gives us a picture of the proceedings on such occasions.

S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould - In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc