What is "sextan"

Usage examples of "sextan".

A few stragglers placed bets, mostly with copper coins ranging from full asses through the whole spectrum of its fractions: the sextans, the guadrans and trims, a quincunx, several semis coins, the cheaper septunx, the bes, and dodrans, one dextans and deunx each, and of course, the inevitable and popular uncia.

Of these, only two—Delta Sextans IV and Delta Sextans V—could possibly meet our requirements.

In any case it is doubtful if IV will be selected as the site for the Delta Sextans colony.

But the night was as silent as night on Delta Sextans IV ever was, and after their usual early breakfast the scientific party flapped off on its various occasions.

Don’t forget that the Delta Sextans IV survey was carried out by the Scientific Branch.

Telescopum and Sextans and Microscopum and whatever other damn fool things the seventeenth-century navigators had stuck in the sky.

He was interred by the plebeians, each man contributing a sextans towards the expense.

In Rome and throughout Italy it had been sold at a sextans, and the contractors were bound to sell it at the old price in Rome but allowed to charge a higher price in the country towns and markets.