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I gave three minae for the two, besides the carriage.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

With verbs of buying and selling, price is designated by the Ablative; as— servum quīnque minīs ēmit, he bought the slave for five minae.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

And while not spending more than twenty-five minae of the five thousand drachmae charged for their father's monument, he charged half that amount to himself, and half to them.

From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias

Aristotle, we are told, possessed a somewhat extensive library; and Plato is recorded to have paid the large sum of one hundred minae for three small treatises of Philolaus the Pythagorean.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

And in taxes he contributed for both no less than forty minae, and for the expedition to Sicily he spent a hundred minae.

From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias