Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cotula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COT'ULA or COT'YLA (κοτύλη). A small measure of capacity, containing the half of a sextarius. (Mart. Ep. viii. 71.) It was especially employed by medical practitioners, and had a graduated scale marked upon the sides, like those used by our apothecaries, dividing it into twelve equal parts, each of which was termed an uncia, 1 oz.