Note 056
From Chapter 31 of the Decline & Fall

Suetonius in Augustus c. 42. The utmost debauch of the emperor himself, in his favourite wine of Rhaetia, never exceeded a sextarius (an English pint). Id. c. 77. Torrentius ad loc. and Arbuthnot's Tables, p. 86.

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