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Latin
Etymology
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 vote) and if they tried to enter they would be pushed back from the bridge leading to them. The phrase literally means "sixty-year-olds over the bridge".
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Pronunciation
Proverb
sexāgēnāriōs dē ponte
- sixty-year-olds over the bridge
Usage notes
- This expression has often at an early period been erroneously referred to a religious usage or original human sacrifices.
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