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How to use congius in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word congius? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Some amphoras seem to be multiples of the choe, equivalent to the Roman congius.
In the nineteenth century, the congius was used in British medicine and pharmacology as a name for the British Imperial gallon.
But just when I thought it was going to get good and circular it turns out that a congius is roughly equal to six pints, and so a sextarius is one pint.
The principal Roman capacity measures were the hemina, sextarius, modius, and amphora for dry products and the quartarus, sextarius, congius, urna, and amphora for liquids.
Examples from Classical Literature
One metreta, a Greek measure, equalled about nine English gallons, and a congius contained about six pints.
This is furnished with brazen buckets, each holding about a congius.
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