COTULA, or COTYLA, a liquid measure in use among the ancients. Fannius says the cotyla was the same thing with the hemina, which was half a sextary.
At cotylas, quas si placeat, dixisse licet
Heminas recepti geminas sextarius unus.
Chorier observes, that the cotyla was used as a dry measure as well as a liquid one; and this is confirmed by the authority of Thucydides, who in one place mentions two cotylæ of wine, and in another two cotylæ of bread.