AMPHORA, among the Venetians, the largest measure used for liquids. It contains four bigorzas, the bigorza being four quarts, the quart four sachies, and each sachie four leras; but, by wholesale, the amphora is fourteen quarts, and the bigorza three quarts and a half.
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