choenix
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A Greek dry measure, mentioned by Homer, and originally the daily ration of a man, but varying from a quart to over a quart and a half.
Examples
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The choenix was about two pints, dry measure; the cotylè about half a pint.
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A man's full day's wage would purchase only a pint and a half of wheat (a choenix) and that would form but a _scant_ feeding for the day for himself.
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Hurry yourselves then, for Glycé has sworn that the last comer shall forfeit three measures of wine and a _choenix_ of pease.
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The measure, or _choenix_, of wheat was the usual daily allowance of food for a man.
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The usual price of a choenix was 1/8th of a denarius; so that corn, here, in this famine, is eight times its usual price.
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While making food scarce, do not make it so much so that a choenix (about a day's provision of wheat, variously estimated at two or three pints) shall not be obtainable "for a penny"
Note
The word 'choenix' comes from Greek.
