medimnos

plural medimnoi · alternative medimn · alternative medimno · alternative medimnus

1. historicalA unit of dry capacity, in Ancient Greece, equal to about 52-58 litres, according to region and era.

   Every month, on the first day, and again on the seventh of the first decade, each king receives a beast without blemish at the public cost, which he offers up to Apollo; likewise a medimnus of meal, and of wine a Laconian quart.

   1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus