Maris
μάρις
Maris (μάρις, μάρης, Hesych. μάριστον), a Greek measure of capacity, which, according to Pollux (10.184) and Aristotle (Hist. An. 8.9), contained 6 cotylae (or nearly 3 pints). Polyaenus (4.3.32) mentions a much larger measure of the same name containing 10 congii, or nearly 8 gallons. [COTYLA]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.