May-weed, a genus of plants belonging to the syngenesia clas. See Botany Index.

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 placeet, dixisse licebit Heminas recepit geminas festarias unum.

Chorier observes, that the cotyla was used as a dry measure as well as a liquid one; from the authority of Thucydides, who in one place mentions two cotylae of wine, and in another two cotylae of bread.