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  • A bushel of the best wheat of Campania, which was of the first quality, containing sixteen sextarii, yielded four sextarii of siligo, here seemingly used for the finest flour; half a bushel of _flos_, bolted flour; four sextarii of

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Pliny speaks of 70 talents being given for one holding three sextarii, about four and a half pints.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • In the minutiae of estate management nothing was too small for Gregory's personal notice, from the exact number of sextarii in a modius of corn, or how many soluli went to one golden pound, to the use of false weights by certain minor agents.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Hunus helped himself to as much as would fill a gallon measure (_vas sextarii mensuram_) of the sacred remains.

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • This Lunison did, and Hunus helped himself to as much as would fill a gallon-measure (_vas sextarii mensuram_) of the sacred remains.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • _cibarium_, seconds; and four sextarii of bran; thus giving an excess of four sextarii.

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • _sextarii_ of wine, and wanted to ascertain whether he had been cheated in his bargain, would fill the receptacle to the proper line, then open the valve or spicket below, and transfer the tested contents again to his sack or flask.

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • Literally, containing a "modius," which contained sixteen sextarii, something more than a peck of dry-measure English.] [Footnote 3: _The store-closet_) -- Ver.

    The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

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