Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Charistion

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. 

CHARIS'TION (χαριστίων). An instrument for weighing; but of what precise character, or in what it differed from the balance (libra) and steelyard (statera) is not ascertained. Inscript. ap. Don. cl. 2. n. 67. Not. Tires. p. 164.