sexagenarios de ponte

When the men of Rome reached the age of sixty, they could no longer vote in the ovile and later the Saepta Iulia (the places where the citizens cast votes), and if they tried to enter, they would be pushed back from the bridge leading to them.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛk.saː.ɡeːˈnaː.ri.oːs ˈdeː ˈpɔn.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seɡ.za.d͡ʒeˈnaː.ri.os ˈd̪ɛː ˈpɔn̪.t̪e]

sexāgēnāriōs dē ponte

1. sixty-year-olds over the bridge

• This expression has often at an early period been erroneously referred to a religious usage or original human sacrifices.

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