An ancient Greek unit of capacity, = 144 kotyle, about 39.4 liters (10 U.S. gallons).
The metretes occurs in the Bible, in John 2:6, which the King James version renders as “2 or 3 firkins” and the Revised Standard Version as “20 or 30 gallons.”
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