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This is a talk page belonging to Ourai. I guess that's all I have to say about that. Carry on.

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I've just happened onto the article Obol (coin), to which you made this edit some time ago. The unit equivalence "six ounces (three liters)" doesn't seem correct at all. I don't have access to the source, and know nothing about ancient Greek drinking practices, so I can't fix it myself; could you please check up on it and make sure of the units? Thanks. Ammodramus (talk) 13:07, 19 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well — that's just weird. The edit is timestamped four and a half years back, but I have zero recollection of having made it. What's odder is that I haven't the foggiest as to why I would have made it in the first place. My classical background, what little of it there is, is largely limited to the Italo-Roman sphere; I know nothing about Greek drinking practices either! Nevertheless, I'm always up for a treasure hunt. After some looking, I found a copy of the cited text on Google Books. (Thank you, Judge Chin!) Since you mentioned not having access to the source, I've transcribed the relevant paragraph below:
. . . According to the rhetorical sources, the taverns are places where you could meet a member of the Aeropagus, or Aeschines the Socratic, or Euphiletus and his friends, picking up torches on their way to kill Eratosthenes. In comedy they are places well known to men like Blepyrus in Wealth or slaves in Lysistrata, and to women of all levels of society, the citizen women of the Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae and the Ecclesiazusae as well as a nurse in Eubulus' Pamphilus. In the tavern as in the andrōn, wine was drunk mixed, but without all the ritual and regulation of the well-ordered symposium: 'As for me — for there happened to be a large new kapēleion across the road from the house — I was keeping my eye on the girl's nurse, for I had ordered the barman to mix me a chous [six pints] for an obol and to accompany it with the biggest kantharos he had.' Wine in the tavern was mixed for the individual in an individual vessel, with an individual cup to drink it out of. . . .
James N. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens 59 (1998) (emphasis added).
A closer reading shows indeed that the units are pints. Which makes sense, since ounces doesn't. Perhaps more importantly, though, the information comes in an unattributed quotation. The entire page is a single paragraph with a lone endnote at its end (34, if anyone's interested). Google Books doesn't provide the endnotes themselves, so it's unclear who the quotation is actually attributed to. Certainly it would be improper to attribute it to a "nurse in Eubulus' Pamphilus;" though the nurse appears on the same page, she's not the source of that information.
I'll make the appropriate correction to the article. I'll also remove the nurse attribution, since it clearly doesn't make sense in context. I'll also drop a note on the article's Talk page about the reference in question. I've never seen the book, but perhaps I can get a copy through PEGASUS or something to check the reference. Hm. Ourai тʃс 19:20, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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