λίτρ-α, ἡ,
a silver coin of Sicily, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 9, 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 72, 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 71, 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 8.—On its value see 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 476, 510. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II as a weight, [[ 12 ounces, ] Refs]a pound, [[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus] 141, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.43.19, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.116, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.43, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Tiberius Gracchus” 2, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 14.7.1: _metaphorically_, λίτρᾰν ἐτῶν ζήσας] Refs 4th c.BC+] having lived a pound of years, i.e. [[ 72 (in late times a pound of gold was coined into 72 pieces), “Anthologia Graeca” 10.97 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__III measure of capacity, = [[ 1 Italic κοτύλη, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.287] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. [ῑ as in Latin libra; written λείτρα in [[ “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2040.7 (Bosp.).] (Both λίτρα] Refs] and Latin libra probably from early Italic *līprā.)