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Achăné

（ἀχάνη). A Persian measure equivalent to 45 Attic μέδιμνοι. According to Hesychius, there was also a Boeotian ἀχάνη equivalent to one Attic μέδιμνος. See Medimnus.

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

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