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SEXTARIUS, a Roman Measure for Liquids. It contain’d two Heminæ, or ten Roman Ounces, according to Fannius.
Heminas recipit geminas Sextarius unus.
Budeus, l. 5. de Asse, thinks the Sextarius was nearly the same as the Pint of Paris. St. Jerome upon Ezekiel says, that a Man might be supported, by only drinking two Sextarii a Day.
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