May-weed, a genus of plants belonging to the syngenesia class. 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 placet, disesse licet Heminas recipit geminas sextarias unus.

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 cotyle of wine, and in another two cotyle of bread.