Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hemina

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. 

HEMI'NA (ἡμίνα). A measure of capacity, containing half a sextarius (Festus, s. v. Rhemn. Fann. de Pond. 67.); whence, also, a vessel made to contain that exact quantity. Pers. i. 129.