COTULA, or COTYLA, a liquid measure in use among the Greeks and Romans. Fannius says the cotyla was the same as the hemina, which was half a sextary: it contained nearly half a pint English.
At cotylas, quas, si placeat, dixisse licebit
Heminis recepti geminas sextarius unus.
Chorier remarks, 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 cotyles of wine, and in another two cotyles of bread.