terceni

trĕcēni ( tercēni, Eum. Rest. Schol. 11), ae, a ( gen. plur. trecenorum, Liv. 7, 25:

trecenūm,

Sen. Q. N. 3, 7, 3 ), num. distr. adj. [tres-centum].

I.

Lit., three hundred each, three hundred distributively:

treceni equites in singulis legionibus,

Liv. 39, 38, 11; 8, 8, 14:

familiae in singulas colonias,

id. 32, 29, 4:

nummi in capita Romana,

id. 22, 52, 3.—Of an indefinitely large number:

non si trecenis, quotquot eunt dies, Amice, places illacrimabilem Plutona tauris,

Hor. C. 2, 14, 5. —

II.

Transf., in gen., three hundred:

vivere ducenis annis et quosdam trecenis,

Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 28.