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
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...dimidiatam fabulam", non "dimidiam". Contra autem si ex sextario hemina fusa est, non "dimidiatum sextarium fusum" dicendum..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...expeditione fuerant. Iisdem militibus legiones libras farris et sextarios vini contulerunt; omniaque ea ingenti alacritate per clamorem militarem..."