chous

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of chou
2. A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.
3. An Ancient Greek unit of liquid measure correspondent to 12 cotylae.

   “It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.”

   “Accordingly one Amphoreus Metrétés contained 12 Choes, 144 Kotyloi, 864 Kyathoi. The Amphoreus held 39·39 litres or 69·33 pints, or slightly over 8½ gallons. It may generally be assumed that the great pointed pottery jars in which wines were preserved, exported and sold were, each of them, such an amphoreus.”

   “Amphoreis of wine [- - -] : 590, three choes¹² […] 12. I.e., 590 amphoreis (a unit of measurement probably equivalent to 12 choes) + three choes = 7,083 choes.”

   “[…] a jar, of two metretai; a bronze jug, of four choes, and spouted cup; a tray for cups, and a second one; […]”

   “The amounts are significant: 8 choes of wine equals 6 gallons; a medimnos equals 48 khoinikes. A single khoinix was a day’s grain ration for a man in Athens.”