medimnosとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• medimn, medimno, medimnus

語源

From Ancient Greek μέδιμνος (médimnos).

名詞

medimnos (plural medimnoi)

1. (historical) A unit of dry capacity, in Ancient Greece, equal to about 52-58 litres, according to region and era.
   • 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars‎, translation of original by Herodotus:

     Every month, on the first day, and again on the seventh of the first decade, each king receives a beast without blemish at the public cost, which he offers up to Apollo; likewise a medimnus of meal, and of wine a Laconian quart.

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