HECTĒ

or HECTEUS ( ἕκτη , ἑκτεύς ), and its half, Hemiecton or Hemiecteon ( ἡμίεκτον , ἡμιεκτέον ). In dry measures, the hecteus was the sixth part of the medimnus , and the hemiecteon , of course, the twelfth part. The hecteus was equal to the Roman modius , as each contained 16 ξέσται or sextarii. The Hecte or Hecteus and Hemiecton were also the names of coins, but the accounts we have of their value are very various. The only consistent explanation is, that there were different hectae , derived from different units; in fact, that these coins were not properly denominations of money, but subdivisions of the recognised denominations.