[Sca-cooks] glossary and measurements

[Erika Thomenius]

> >choenix - a unit of measurement for wheat mentioned in Herodotus
>
>choinix or cheonix  --  Ancient Greek dry measure of approximately 1 U.S.
>dry quart or 1.1 liters.  1/8 modios.  Appears to be related to the modern
>Persian measure chenica (or chemica), being 1.19 dry quarts or 1.32 liters.
>
>modios  --  Ancient Greek dry measure of approximately 7.86 U.S. dry quarts
>or 8.7 liters.  Often translated as a "bushel."

Actually, a really handy little book to have is _Measure For Measure_, by
Richard Young and Thomas Glover, ISBN 1-889796-00-X.  It's a small, ~900
page book full of all sorts of measurements and their conversions.  It had
both of those, and just about any others you can think of.  Like if you
really want to know how many liters in an Finnish kappa, or how many ferfets
in a square meter.

Definitely a great geeky book.  :)

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