Modius, modij. Colum. A bushell. It was amongst the Romaines a measure of drie thinges conteyning 16. Sextarios, euery Sextarius after Budei 24. ounces, that is out pint and an halfe: so that in this account Modius is iust 3. gallons, that is, our pecke and an halfe. But if Sextarius be taken for 18. ounces as phisitions vse, then is it but 2. gallons and one quart.Modius salis.Cic.Modius vini. Budæus. After Budei 36. Sextiers of wine, and euery Sextier conteyneth 8 pintes of Paris, euery Paris pint is equall to out quart.Modius tritici. Budæus. A pecke and a halfe of wheate with vs or there about.Mille modij fabæ. Horat. Modius agri. Varro. A grounde conteyning an hundred foote. Modium, neutro genere etiam dicitur. Plin.
mŏdĭus, ii (gen. plur. modiūm: qui CCCC. modium quinque milia, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, 83: modiorum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 72), m. (neutr. collat. form: mŏdĭum, ii, n., Cato, R. R. 58; so in plur.: modia vicena, Plin. 18, 16, 43, 145) [modus], the Roman corn-measure, a measure, peck, containing sixteen sextarii, or the sixth part of a Greek medimnus (class.): salis modium, Cato, R. R. 58: tritici modius, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 10, 30: siligneae farinae modius, Plin. 18, 9, 20, 88: modium populo dare asse, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58: agri Leontini decumae tertio anno venierunt tritici medimnum XXXVI., hoc est tritici modium CC. et XVI. milibus, id. Verr. 2, 3, 46, 110: non minorem quam decem milium modiorum navem fabricare, Ulp. Fragm. 3, 6.— Prov.: verum illud est, quod dicitur, multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitiae munus expletum sit, Cic. Lael. 19, 67: modio nummos metiri, to measure one's money by the peck, said of a rich woman, Petr. 37; cf.: dives, ut metiretur nummos, Hor. S. 1, 1, 95: ego nunc mihi modium mille esse argenti velim, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 9; Juv. 3, 220: pleno modio,
in full measure, abundantly
, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16; cf.: argumentum vobis demensum dabo, non modo neque trimodio, verum ipso horreo, Plaut. Men. prol. 15: servorum ventres modio castigat iniquo,
with short measure
, Juv. 14, 126.—Also as a measure for other things, a peck: metiri modio oleario, Cato, R. R. 144: ut metientibus dimidium (anulorum aureorum) super tres modios explesse, Liv. 23, 12; Pall. 6, 4, 1.—II.Transf.A. Among surveyors, the third part of a jugerum, Auct. de Limit. p. 264 and 312 Goes.; Pall. Mai. 4 al. —B.The socket, step, shoe in which the mast of a ship stands, Isid. Orig. 19, 2, 8.
