Sext in A Sentence

    1

    See Cicero, De Fato, 6, 7, 9; Aristotle, Metaphysica, 0 3; Sext.

    2

    The ordinary word for twelve o'clock was middceg, midday, also the equivalent of the canonical hour "sext."

    3

    Prime (6 A.M.), Terce (9 A.M.), Sext (noon) and None (3 P.M.) are called the Little Day Hours, are often said together, and are alike in character, consisting of a hymn and some sections of Ps.

    4

    Matins and Lauds (about 7.30 A.M.); Prime, Terce (High Mass), Sext, and None (about 10 A.M.); Vespers and Compline (4 P.M.); and from four to eight hours (depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses) are thus spent in choir.

    5

    At midday, when the bells clang twelve times, she says Sext.

    6

    At midday, when the bells clang twelve times, she says sext.