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sīca, ae, f.

  1. I. A curved dagger, a poniard, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 336 Müll. (Ann. v. 496 Vahl.); Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 16; 2, 10, 23; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 1; Suet. Calig. 32; Mart. 3, 16, 2; Val. Max. 3, 2, 12 al.: tum haec cottidiana, sicae, veneni, peculatus, i. e. for stabbing, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74: hinc sicae, hinc venena, hinc falsa testamenta nascuntur, id. Off. 3, 8, 36.
  2. II. Transf., the edge of a boar’s tusk: cum arbore et saxo apri exacuant dentium sicas, Plin. 18, 1, 1, § 2.
    Of wit: sicam ingenii destringentes, Amm. 30, 4, 9.

Sĭcambri, v. Sigambri.

Sĭcāni, ōrum, m., = Σῖκᾰνοί, a very ancient people of Italy on the Tiber, a portion of whom afterwards migrated to Sicily, Verg. A. 5, 293; 7, 795; 11, 317; Sil. 14, 34.
Hence,

  1. A. Sĭcānus (scanned Sīcănŭs, in analogy with the Greek, Sil. 10, 314; 14, 258: Sīcānŭs, Aus. Griph. 46), a, um, adj., = Σικανός.
    1. * 1. Of or belonging to the Sicani, Sicanian: gentes, i. q. Sicani, Verg. A. 8, 328.
      More freq.,
    2. 2. Poet., Siculian, Sicilian: fluctus, Verg. E. 10, 4: portus, id. A. 5, 24: fines, id. ib. 11, 317: montes, Ov. H. 15, 57: Aetna, Hor. Epod. 17, 32: pubes, Sil. 10, 314: gens, id. 14, 258: medimna, Aus. Griph. 46.
  2. B. Sīcănĭus, a, um, adj., = Σικάνιος, Sicanian; poet. for Siculian, Sicilian: latus, Verg. A. 8, 416: harena, Ov. M. 15, 279: fretum, Val. Fl. 2, 29: urbes, Luc. 3, 59: populi, id. 3, 179: apes, Mart. 2, 46, 2; 11, 9, 8.
    1. 2. As subst.: Sī-cănĭa, ae, f., = Σικανία, the island of Sicily, Ov. M. 5, 464; 5, 495; 13, 724; cf.: Sicilia, Sicania, a Thucydide dicta, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 86.
  3. * C. Sīcănis, ĭdis, adj. f., Sicanian, for Siculian, Sicilian: Aetna, Ov. Ib. 600.

sīcārĭus, i, m. [sica], an assassin, murderer (syn.: percussor, homicida): per abusionem sicarios etiam omnes vocamus, qui caedem telo quocumque commiserint, Quint. 10, 1, 12: vetus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 14, 39; * Hor. S. 1, 4, 4; Cic. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; id. Verr. 2, 1, 3, § 9; Suet. Caes. 72: jam sexcenti sunt, qui inter sicarios et de veneficiis accusabant, of assassination, Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 90; so, quaestio inter sicarios, id. Clu. 53, 147; id. Fin. 2, 16, 54; and: inter sicarios defendere, id. Phil. 2, 4, 8: lex Cornelia (Sullae) de sicariis, Just. Inst. 4, 18, § 5: lege de sicariis condemnari, Tac. A. 13, 44 fin.; cf. Orell. Ind. Legum, in his edit. of Cic., vol. viii. 3, p. 162: in exercendā de sicariis quaestione, etc., Suet. Caes. 11.

Sĭgambri (also Sĭcambri, Sy-gambri, and Sŭgambri), ōrum, m., = Σύγαμβροι, Ptol. Dio Cass.; Σούγαμβροι, Strabo, a powerful people of Germany, between the Sieg and the Ruhr, and as far as the Lippe (the mod. Cleve, Berg, and Recklingshausen), Caes. B. G. 4, 16; 4, 18 sq.; 6, 35; Hor. C. 4, 2, 36; 4, 14, 51; Tac. A. 2, 26; 12, 39; Suet. Aug. 21; Mart. Spect. 3, 9.
Hence,

  1. A. Sĭgamber, bra, brum, adj., of or belonging to the Sigambri, Sigambrian: cohors, Tac. A. 4, 47 fin.
    Subst.: Sĭgambra, ae, f., a Sigambrian woman, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 49.
  2. B. Sĭgam-brĭa, ae, f., the country of the Sigambri, Sigambria, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 383.