Amphoreus

Quick meaning: Amphoreus is a noun meaning An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure reckoned as equivalent to about 9 gallons.

Meaning

An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure reckoned as equivalent to about 9 gallons.

Example Sentences

Figuring an amphoreus conservatively at ca. 9 gal. (34.06 l.), the silver vessel had a capacity of ca. 5,400 gal. (20,439 l.).

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.

The expensive wine of Chios was worth a mina an amphoreus; but twenty drachmas an amphoreus, or forty cents a gallon, was regarded as an extravagant price to pay for ordinary wine.

Whether the Schol. on Plato, Rep., p. 399 (see p. 7) refers to Athens is uncertain; it states that the second prize was an amphoreus of wine, the third a goat, which was led away smeared with wine-lees.

Word Forms

• amphoreis

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