Congius of vespasian biography

Ancient Roman unit of measurement

In Ancient Roman measurement, congius (pl.

Congius of vespasian biography

congii, from Greekkonkhion, diminutive of konkhē, konkhos, "shellful"^[1]) was a liquid measure that was about 3.48 litres (0.92 U.S. gallons).^[2] It was equal to the larger chous of the Ancient Greeks.

The congius contained six sextarii.

Cato tells us that he was wont to give each of his slaves a congius of wine at the Saturnalia and Compitalia.^[3]Pliny relates, among other examples of hard drinking, that a Novellius Torquatus of Mediolanum obtained a cognomen (Tricongius, a nine-bottle-man) by drinking three congii (approximately 14 modern 75 cl bottles or roughly 2.7 gallons in total) of wine at once:

It is in the exercise of their drinking powers that the Parthians look for their share of fame, and it was in this that Alcibiades among the Greeks earned his great repute.

Among ourselves, too, Novellius Torquatus of Mediolanum, a man who held