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noun
Sext  n.  (R.C.Ch.)
(a)
The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
(b)
The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.






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"Sext" Quotes from Famous Books



... {to thulako periergasthai}: which is susceptible of a variety of meanings. In a similar story told of the Chians the Spartans are made to say that it would have been enough to show the empty bag without saying anything. (Sext. Empir. ii. 23.) Probably the meaning here is that if they were going to say so much, they need not have shown the bag, for the words were enough without the sight of the bag: or it may be only that the words {o thulakos} were unnecessary in the ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus



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