dichoron [Greek, dichoron in Greek characters]

In Egypt in Greco-Roman times, a unit of capacity used for wine, = 8 choes = 96 kotylai.

Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott.
A Greek-English Lexicon. A New Edition. [9th ed.]
Henry Stuart Jones, revisor, et al.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940.

Page 1627.

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