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How to use denarii in a sentence

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Drusilla, I want you and Portia to count out four hundred and nine denarii for Beatrice.
The pictor imaginarius made 150 denarii a day, double the daily wage of a wall painter and six times that of a field labourer.
The gold denomination of the Roman Empire was the aureus, which was worth twenty-five silver denarii.
I don't even have to leave any denarii for further expenses.
The Emperor Nero was short of a few denarii to pay his soldiers so he created some more by debasing the currency.
The price of bdellium when quite pure is three denarii per pound.
He had already put her name and face on a Roman coin, the silver denarii.
The catalyst was the Roman procurator's demand for 100,000 denarii from the Temple treasury, probably to make up a shortfall in revenues caused by a tax strike.
If we demand payment up to the last denarii, then we should first pay up to the last quadrant.
The water code includes penalties of between 5,000 and 12,500 denarii, a Roman currency.
By June, he had gathered an army of 3,000 loyal veterans, paying each a salary of 500 denarii.
Finally, denarii were issued in Rome in the names of pope and emperor from Leo III and Charlemagne onwards to the late tenth century.
Next day, he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper.
In 2006 a hoard of 599 silver denarii, hidden in a locally made cooking pot, was found at Llanvaches by a metal detectorist.
The sources also concur that bishops and abbots were to collect from the priests in their districts as much as each cleric could afford, ranging from as little as four denarii to a maximum of five solidi.
He also returned to coins, this time focusing on English silver pennies and groats and Roman silver denarii.
However, as ever in football finance, things are never as clear-cut as they seem and we are a long way from a scenario where Demarai equals denarii.
A denarius bore the image of Caesar, who demanded denarii in return.
In spite of the steady inflation during the 2nd century, there was no further rise until the time of Septimius Severus, who increased it to 500 denarii a year.
Later, under Caracalla, the praemia increased to 5,000 denarii.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Three hundred Roman pence, or denarii, amount to about nine pounds seven shillings and sixpence sterling.
If anyone is summoned to the court and does not come, he shall pay 600 denarii, which make 15 solidi.
If anyone cuts off the thumb or the great toe of another, he shall pay 2,000 denarii, which make 50 solidi.
If anyone wounds another so that the blood falls to the ground, he shall pay 600 denarii, which make 15 solidi.
The Turk had often said that he would not give a branch of this tree for a hundred denarii.
Mommsen quotes the price as 12,000 denarii, which would amount to about the same sum.
Elsewhere in the British Museum you will discover that the ancient Greeks had drachmae before the Romans came along with their denarii.
But, theoretically, it was still considered equal to 40 denarii.
Do you not know that the whole book costs only five denarii?
There were 12 denarii to the solidus and 20 soldi to the pound of silver.
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