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Tables of Ancient Coins ,

the first man who drank a %&<; (or 7 pints) in those holidays;which was a very barbarous thing among such polite people as theAthenians.

The ySg contain’d 1 1 Cotyla according to Cleopatra , 0 yjtsgv/jn fjLn^od fAv xotvKcl? oltIixclz i'dJ'Mct. The same is consirm’dby others. And Athenœus lib. 11. faith that Aclywag contain’dthe fame number of Cotyla. So it was equal to the yjdg. It issometimes us’d in the neutral gender as Aoiyvvov, and sometimesit is called A ctynvov : which some transtate lagena.

As the Romans borrowed the name of the Congius from theGreek y£g> so did the Grecians in later times borrow the %ig-y\gfrom the Roman Sextarius. It was the 6th part of the yysg-, asappears from Galen and others.

KotvAyi, so called from its Cavity. Athenaus lib. 19. T q-xolXoi KOTvtov tKcthav ot 7 ta.Xcudti i. e. the Ancients called everyconcave thing xotJa n- The fame Author faith likewise y.orvKn3 KoLh&Tou dj Yi tQ \yya xoiAoVus j rhat is, the Cavity of the Cox-endix is called Cotyla. There were, according to Galen, several Co-tylœ, such as the Alexandrian and Ephejian : but the Attick Cotylawas one half of the Interpres Arijloph. in Plutum, faith kotv-

A Y) 3 g <g)v eiS'og jU.gr 0 AiyojULW Yi/meig vipLi^g-ov ; i. e. the Cotylais a Measure which we call a half |-g g-y\g. Rhemnius Fannius,

At Cotylas, quas, ji placeat, dixijse licebitHeminas: recipit geminas Sextarius unus.

From kotvAyi comes rQ/KorvAog dtvog in Hejychius , which signi-fies as much wine as three kotvAcu hold.

Tav^cAiov was the same Measure as the norJ A«, as appears byCleopatra and Galen.

O 'Z'v&clQov was a Measure answering to the Roman Acetabulum .Plin. lib. 15. cap. tilt. faith it was the fourth part of the Hemina.Hejychius faith it was called ale, ctAf fidtyioh and ydGevov-

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