librae
- plural of libra.
Example Sentences
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To separate the copper from the silver we require five hundred librae of lead, more or less, with which the regulus is melted in the second furnace.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
From time to time small pieces of sulphur, enveloped in or mixed with wax, are dropped into six librae of the molten copper, and consumed; the sulphur weighs half an uncia and a sicilicus.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Their size, however, depends on the cakes, which have not the same weight everywhere; for in some places they are made to weigh six librae, in other places ten, and elsewhere twenty.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
It is found in lumps, in shafts as well, sometimes even exceeding ten librae in weight.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Thus there is left in the "bottoms," weighing twenty-three centumpondia, a total of eight and three-quarter librae of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
