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[80] The choenix was a measure corresponding to our quart.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The choenix was about two pints, dry measure; the cotylè about half a pint.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Whoever shall touch my choenix, — for what is contained in the choenix is intended.
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[To the women that are just arriving; in a loud voice] Hurry yourselves then, for Glyce has sworn that the last comer shall forfeit three measures of wine and a choenix of pease.
The Ecclesiazusae 2000
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Nothing excepting, quite recently, five bushels of barley, and even these you have only obtained with great difficulty, on proving you were not aliens, and then choenix by choenix.
The Wasps 2000
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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.
The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson
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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.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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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 extent is fore-known — "A choenix of wheat for a denarius."
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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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.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
she commented on the word choenix
See chœnix.
September 1, 2008
qms commented on the word choenix
n. 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.
November 12, 2016
qms commented on the word choenix
Boys come to the Greek teacher's door
When cheated by Cook and implore,
"He's up to his mean tricks
And shorting my choenix.
I pray you, Dear Master, some more!"
November 12, 2016