sextarios
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sextarius, sextari(i):
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Technical
pint (about); 1/6 congius (liquid); 1/16 modius (dry); cup of that size;
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...dimidiatam fabulam", non "dimidiam". Contra autem si ex sextario hemina fusa est, non "dimidiatum sextarium fusum" dicendum..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...expeditione fuerant. Iisdem militibus legiones libras farris et sextarios vini contulerunt; omniaque ea ingenti alacritate per clamorem militarem..."
