[Sca-cooks] glossary

[Terry Decker]

Cindy, you occassional come up with some real lulus.  It took me two days to
chase this one down.


>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."

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