Roman nomen gentile, sometimes confused with Sextius. The family surfaced as patrician with S. [1] and [5] in the mid 5th cent. BC. In the late Republic, it had only (politically insignificant) plebeian members.
In order to illustrate the just administration of the first collegium of decemviri, especially the justice of C. Iulius [I 13] Iullus, Livy (3,33,9 f.) and Cicero (Rep. 2,61) tell the anecdote that …
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Müller, Christian (Bochum) and
Bartels, Jens (Bonn),
“Sestius”, in:
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