- A
medimnos (Gr****: μέδιμνος, médimnos,
plural μέδιμνοι, médimnoi) was an
Ancient Gr**** unit of volume,
which was
generally used to
measure dry food grain...
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medimni of
produce as
yearly income hippeis – knights, with at
least 300
medimni zeugitae –
possessors of a yoke of oxen, with at
least 150
medimni thetes...
- to an
inscription from Cyrene, Libya, she was the
recipient of 50,000 '
medimni' of grain, and
shipped the
surplus to Corinth.
Alexander I
conquered Heraclea...
-
records that
during a
famine in the late 320s,
Cyrene sent over 800,000
medimni of
grain (ca. 40,000,000 litres) to the
cities of
Greece and the Macedonian...
- and got from
Moagetes I, the
tyrant of Cibyra, 100
talents and 10,000
medimni of wheat. Livy says that
Moagetes controlled Syleum and Alimne, in addition...
-
blocked his p****age,
exacted from
Tabae a fine of 25
talents and 10,000
medimni of wheat.
Tabae was also the seat of a diocese, a
suffragan of Stauropolis...
- were required, no one of
which was able to
carry more than
fifty thousand medimni, nor any one less than
three thousand. And in all the
vessels together...
