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saepes (sēp-), is (nom. saeps, Cic. acc. to Aus. Idyll. in Grammaticom. 12, 11; Val. Fl. 6, 537; but, saepes, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 2; Verg. E. 1, 54; Col. 10, 374; Pall. 1, 34, 6; Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 56), f. [root svak-, to make firm; Sanscr. sag, to cling; cf. σάττω; p for k, as in lupus].

  1. I. Prop., a hedge, fence; sing., besides the passages above cited, Pac. ap. Non. 179, 15; Verg. G. 1, 270; Col. 11, 3, 3 sq.; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 101; Ov. H. 20, 144: viva saepis, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: saepes ex agresti ligno, id. ib. 1, 14, 2.
    Plur., Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42, 119; Caes. B. G. 2, 17; 2, 22; Verg. G. 2, 371; id. E. 8, 37; Ov. M. 1, 493.
  2. II. Meton., of any enclosure (poet.): scopulorum, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: portarum, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 81.

‡ saepis, e, adj., = συχνός [akin with saepes, q. v.], that happens often, frequent.
As an adj. cited only once in the comp. saepior, by Prisc. p. 1016 P.; and once in the sup.: saepissimam discordiam fuisse, Cato Nep. ap. Prisc. p. 602 P.