or COTYLA, a liquid measure in use among the Greeks and Romans. Fannius says the cotyla was the same as the *hesina*, which was half a sextarius: it contained nearly half a pint English.

At cotylas, quas, si placet, dixisse licet Heminas recipit 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 cotyle of wine, and in another two cotyler of bread.