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Cubus

（κύβος). A die, cube. (See Tessera.) A cubic foot of water was the amphora or quadrantal, the principal liquid measure. See Quadrantal.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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