Literary usage of Sextarius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Classical Technology by John Miller Burnam (1920)
"Now all these items we have (687 C) previously stated. Now a table of measures:
Cubus contains ten pounds, a sextarius three pounds, ..."
2. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown, David Jennings (1823)
"... a common day's journey; an Egyptian aroura; the Levitical cities. 2.
Liquid measure. Their quadrans; log or sextarius ; firkin; hin; measure; bath; cor. ..."
3. Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, Explain'd and Exemplify'd in by John Arbuthnot (1727)
"A Sextarius is alfo divided into 8 Acetabula, according to Pliny lib. »i« cap.
ultimo. there were letters in their name. Mart. lib. i . ..."
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