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Headword:
*me/dimnon
Adler number: mu,404
Translated headword: bushel
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It is a measure of dry goods such as wheat or barley.[1]
Thus a bushel [is] six modii, so as to be a measure of 72 xestai, i.e. 108 litrai.[2]
Greek Original:*me/dimnon: me/tron e)sti\ chrw=n oi(=on purw=n h)\ kriqw=n. *me/dimnon ou)=n modi/wn #2#, w(s ei)=nai me/tron cestw=n ob#, h)/toi litrw=n rh#.
Notes:
See also
mu 403.
[1] Abridged from Harpokration s.v.
medimnos, commenting on
Dinarchus fr. XIX.7 Conomis.
[2] We might have expected to be told that a
medimnos was six
hekteis; in fact this secondary gloss relates it to two Roman, not Greek, measures.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@05:47:08.
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