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sextarius, n. Now hist.
Brit. |sɛkˈstɛːrɪəs|, |sɛkˈstɑːrɪəs|, U.S. |sɛkˈstɛriəs|, |sɛkˈstɑriəs|
Plural sextarii, sextariuses
[‹ classical Latin sextārius, measure of capacity (see note) > n.) + -ārius -ary suffix1. Compare sextar n., sextary n., and sester n.
As a liquid measure, a sixth of a congius (congius n.); as a dry measure, a sixteenth of a modius (modius n.).In Middle English also unchanged in the plural.]
= sextary n. 1 sextary n. 1b. Cf. sester n., sextar n.
Statements of the volume or weight that this measure represents vary considerably.
a1398J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) II. xxi. cxxviii. 1373 Emina weyeþ a pounde. And suche tweyne makeþ sextarius and is þe mesure of tweye pound..and..congius conteyneþ sixe sextarius and sextarius, haþ þat name þerfore. a1450tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) 200 Sextarius is to poundes and an half. 1601P. Holland in tr. Pliny Hist. World II. sig. Avv/1, Catal. Words, Mna or Mina, was a Roman weight, which poised twentie ounces:..so that Mina seemed to answere unto the measure Sextarius. 1656T. Blount Glossographia Triental (Lat.), a vessel containing the third part of Sextarius, half our Pint. 1705J. Toland tr. de la Créquinière Agreement Customs E.-Indians with Jews p. x, I suppose a Congius to contain 6 Sextariuses, as all Men do, and each Sextarius to contain 8 pints. 1749Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 420 The Sextarius of either water or wine weighed 20 ounces, the same measure of oil 18, and of honey 30. 1846H. W. Herbert Roman Traitor II. 102 Fetch me the great goblet, the double-sextarius, of spiced mulse with a snow-water. 1892Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 23 122 βάδοσ..was a measure of liquids, according to Joseph. Antt. 8, 2, 9 = 72 sextarii or 8½ gallons. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1963) iii. 107 The sester or sextarius. 2003Times 22 Feb. 6 There, legionnaires could throw a handful of denarii on the counter and demand a sextarius or two of the amber nectar. |