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What does 'a vowel followed by two consonants' exactly mean?

In his New Latin Grammar, Bennett states (5.B.1.c): A syllable is long if it contains a short vowel followed by x, z, or any two consonants" As an example to this rule he gives the word restō, but I fail to understand what this really means. Does…
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