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libras

  • plural
    of libra.
    libra
    noun
    the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).

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How do we know what libras or bitcoins are worth, or whether they’re worth anything?

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019

Breastwork of S. Pedro near the New Port One saker cast in Mexico, caliber five libras, length thirty-two calibers.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

The other face bears the lines of Juvenal— 'Expende quot libras in duce summo invenies.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

Most of the lights were candles of two, three, four, five, or six libras, and were placed in their silver candlesticks, sockets, and holders.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

Quot libras autore summo invenies? is the question for booksellers now.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

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