I.ten twelfths of any thing (mostly post-Aug.; Cic. writes instead: pars dimidia et tertia, Fam. 13, 29, 4; cf.: “remissis senio et trientibus,” id. Sest. 25, 55), Varr. l. l.: “jugeri,” Col. 5, 1, 12: “horae,” Plin. 18, 32, 75, § 324: “gradus neque crassiores dextante, neque tenuiores dodrante,” Vitr. 3, 3: “pro semisse dextans,” Suet. Ner. 32.
dextans , antis, m. contr. from de and sextans: “as dempto sextante,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 172 Müll.,