Sextarius

For such a person is, in fact, a carcass and a sextarius of blood, and nothing more. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Please to grant us the body of a certain person and a sextarius of poor blood.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Roman pound was equivalent to 12 ounces, and the _sextarius_ which was the sixth part of a conge, came near to the old Paris chopin, or half a litre. ❋ Various (N/A)

For all the established prices it makes use of the _Roman Denarii_; and it applies them to the _sextarius_ for liquids, and to the _Roman pound_ for the things sold by weight. ❋ Various (N/A)

_Buttery_: one sextarius, 3 and a half pitchers of wine from the ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Treasury were equivalent to κοδράντης, the Latin _quadrans_? — and in chap.vii. 4, 8, introduced the Roman measure _sextarius_, (ξέστης)? — and who volunteered the information (in chap.xv. 16) that αὐλή is only another designation of πραιτώριον (_Prætorium_)? — ❋ John William Burgon (1850)

Rhaetia, never exceeded a sextarius, (an English pint.) ❋ Unknown (1206)

-- and in chap.vii. 4, 8, introduced the Roman measure sextarius, (xestes)? ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

[Footnote 19: A drinking-vessel holding one third of a _sextarius_ ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

The Roman hemina, which was half a sextarius, contained ten ounces, as Montfaucon demonstrates, (Antiqu.expl. t. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Adamnan, less than a century later, describes it as a "silver cup holding the measure of a Gallic sextarius and with two opposite handles" (see Geyer, Itinera, Hierosolimitana, pp. 154, 173, 234, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Ho! Agathon, my boy, fetch me the great goblet, the double (9) sextarius, of spiced mulse with a snow-water. " ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)