Ἡμιεκτέον
hemi-hekteus
Translated by David Whitehead2 Aug 2005Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
A measure, that is, of four choinikes; for the bushel [medimnos] is of 48 choinikes.1 So the sixth [hekteus] of these [is] 8 choinikes. The hemi-hekteus, that is the twelfth part of the 48 choinikes, [is] 4. Hemi-hekteus is to be spelled with an epsilon and not h(miektai=on .