A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ter times, the Spartansused the scytale sometimes also as a medium throughwhich they sent their commands tosubject and al-lied towns. (Xenoph. Hell. v. 2. § 37.) [L. S.]SCYTHAE (ZK-uQai). [Demosh.]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, [iiller) and Servius {ad Virg. Aen. iv. 262), itwas a long iron knife (culter) with an ivory handle,used by the Flamines, Flaminicae Virgines, andPontifices. Paulus, how
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ter times, the Spartansused the scytale sometimes also as a medium throughwhich they sent their commands tosubject and al-lied towns. (Xenoph. Hell. v. 2. § 37.) [L. S.]SCYTHAE (ZK-uQai). [Demosh.]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, [iiller) and Servius {ad Virg. Aen. iv. 262), itwas a long iron knife (culter) 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 (securis), 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 SECRETARIOI. [Auditorium.]SECTIO. Those are called Sectores who buyproperty publice. (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. H
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