Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Metreta

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. 

METRE'TA (μετρητής). The principal liquid measure of the Greeks, containing about 8 gallons, 7.365 pints, English (Plaut. Merc. prol. 75. Columell. xii. 22. 1.); whence also an earthenware vessel of considerable size (Columell. xii. 51. 2.), used to contain oil, received the same name. Cato, R. R. 100. Juv. iii. 246.