Literary usage of Sextarii
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"24 sextarii. Elsewhere, Epiphanius and other authorities equate the Hebrew modius
with 22 ... Zg) to 72 sextarii, in accordance with his estimate of the ..."
2. Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life, the Employments by Levi W. Yaggy, Thomas Louis Haines (1886)
"... 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 ..."
3. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"The proper proportion for the yield of Campanian wheat to the modius of grain is
four sextarii of what is known as bolted flour;s* but when it is used in ..."
4. Pompeii by George Clarke (1832)
"... which was of the first quality, containing sixteen sextarii, yielded four
sextarii of siligo, here seemingly used for the finest flour ; half a bushel ..."
5. The Italic Dialects by Robert Seymour Conway (1897)
"... 48 sextarii. This seems confirmed, if any confirmation be needed, by the fact
that the outlet-holes of a and d measure ..."
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