Sicca
- a border-town on the east of Numidia, with a temple of Venus, now Kef, Plin. 5, 3, 2, § 22; Sall. J. 56, 3; Val. Max. 2, 6, 15.
- —Hence, Siccenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Sicca, Sall. J. 56, 4 sq.
Seiche. Regestum Castri Lidi in Andibus pag. 31 :
Si mercator in foro vendiderit millenarium suum de harenc, nummatum de harenc reddiderit, et non elegerit. Millenarius Siccarum, 4. den. centum, ob.
Dedi sallagium meum et redditum Siccarum de Plouec et de Karity.
Et si ferat Seches, de unoquoque milliario, quatuor denarios, sive ibi vendat, sive transeat.
Hermero de Monte Martyrum dedimus coustumam coriorum et Siccarum in nundinis edicti(indicti) .
Sica, Pugio, ensis. Gregorius Turon. lib. 9. cap. 19 :
Et statim extinctis luminaribus, caput Sicharii Sicca dividit.Cap. 36.
Sicascribitur :
Etelevans manum cum Sica, caput hominis libravit.
a friend of Cicero, who took refuge at his estate at Vibo, in the country of the Bruttii, when he left Rome in B. C. 58. Here he received intelligence of his banishment, and forthwith set out for Brundisium, where he expected to meet Sicca, but was disappointed, as Sicca had left Brundisium before he arrived there. (Cic. Att. 3.2, 4, ad Fam. 14.4.6). Plutarch (Cic. 32) appears to refer to the same person, but calls him Οὐίριος Σικελὸς ἀνήρ, "Vibius, a Sicilian," as if he had mistaken the name Sicca ; but he relates that this Vibius refused Cicero hospitality at Vibo. Sicca is next mentioned at the breaking out of the civil war in B. C. 49, when L. Domitius sent him with a letter and orders to Pompey. In B. C. 44 Cicero again took refuge in Sicca's house at Vibo. (Cic. Att. 8.12, c. 12.23, 14.19, 16.6, 11.)