chous

1. pluralplural of chou

plural choes · alternative khous

1. A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.
2. An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure correspondent to 12 cotylae.

   It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

   1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures, page 89

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   Accordingly one Amphoreus Metrétés contained 12 Choes, 144 Kotyloi, 864 Kyathoi. The Amphoreus held 39·39 litres or 69·33 pints, or slightly over 8½ gallons. It may generally be assumed that the great pointed pottery jars in which wines were preserved, exported and sold were, each of them, such an amphoreus.

   1957, Charles Seltman, “The Trade”, in Wine in the Ancient World, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, page 137

   Amphoreis of wine [- - -] : 590, three choes¹² […] 12. I.e., 590 amphoreis (a unit of measurement probably equivalent to 12 choes) + three choes = 7,083 choes.

   1977, Charles W. Fornara, Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War (Translated Documents of Greece and Rome; 1), Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, pages 168 and 170

   […] a jar, of two metretai; a bronze jug, of four choes, and spouted cup; a tray for cups, and a second one; […]

   1996, Epigraphica Anatolica, numbers 26–29, page 139

   The amounts are significant: 8 choes of wine equals 6 gallons; a medimnos equals 48 khoinikes. A single khoinix was a day’s grain ration for a man in Athens.

   2018, Timothy Doran, Spartan Oliganthropia, Brill, →ISBN, pages 35–36