modium

modium is a Latin form of modius, meaning “modius, a Roman grain measure (about a peck)”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.18: … cives Romanos eius provinciae sibi ad rem publicam administrandam HS CLXXX et argenti pondo XX milia, tritici modium CXX milia polliceri coëgit. Quas Caesari esse amicas civitates arbitrabatur, his graviora onera iniungebat pr …

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.119: … timonium, remque hanc totam C. Sacerdotis, hominis ornatissimi, testimonio comprobari, scitis Cn. Sertium, M. Modium, equites Romanos, sescentos praeterea civis Romanos multosque Siculos dixisse se isti pecuniam ob ius dicendu …

All forms of modius (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.