A dictionary of Greek and Roman . SCYTHAE (2Kv6ai). [Demosii.]SECESPITA, an instrument used by the Ro-man priests in killing the victims at sacrifices.(Suet. Tib. 25.) According to the definition ofAntistius Labeo, preserved by Festus (p. 348, ) and Servius {ad Virg. Aen. iv. 262), itwas a long iron knife {miter) with an ivory handle,used by the Flamines, Flaminicae Virgines, andPontifices. Paulus, however, in his epitome ofFestus (p. 336) says that some think it to be anaxe (seczcris), others a dolabra, and others again aknife (culter). On Roman coins representing sacr
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . SCYTHAE (2Kv6ai). [Demosii.]SECESPITA, an instrument used by the Ro-man priests in killing the victims at sacrifices.(Suet. Tib. 25.) According to the definition ofAntistius Labeo, preserved by Festus (p. 348, ) and Servius {ad Virg. Aen. iv. 262), itwas a long iron knife {miter) with an ivory handle,used by the Flamines, Flaminicae Virgines, andPontifices. Paulus, however, in his epitome ofFestus (p. 336) says that some think it to be anaxe (seczcris), others a dolabra, and others again aknife (culter). On Roman coins representing sacri-ficial emblems we see an axe, which modern writerscall a secespita, though we do not know on whatauthority, except the doubtful statement of the annexed coin of the Sulpicia Gens, theobverse of which is supposed to represent a culter,a simpuvium, and a SECRET ARIUM. [Auditorium.]SECTIO. Those are called Sectores who buyproperty pw5/ice. (Gaius, iv. 146; Festus, ) Property was said to be sold publice{venire publice), when a mans property was soldby the state in consequence of a condemnatio andfor the purpose of repayment to the State of suchsums of money as the condemned person had im-properly appropriated ; or in consequence of a pro-scriptio. (Liv. xxxviii. 60 ; Cic. in Verr. i. 20.)Such a sale of all a mans property was a Sectio(Cic. pro Roscio Amer. 36, 43, &c.) ; and some-times the things sold were called Sectio. ( i. 90.) The sale was effected by the Praetorgiving to the Quaestors the Bonorum Possessio, inreference to which the phrase bona publice pos-sideri is used. The property was sold sub hastaand the sale transferred Quiritarian ownership, towhich Gaius probably alludes in a mutilated pas-sage (iii. 80 ; compare Varro, de Re Rust. ii. 4 ; Tacit. Hist. i. 20). The Sector was intitledto the
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