minae
- plural of mina.
Example Sentences
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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
You've already got ten minae with you; or reckon up the account: thirty minae I gave for your freedom— PHILE.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
The Syracusan people solemnise, at the cost of two hundred minae, the funeral of this man, the Corinthian Timoleon, son of Timodemus.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
I claim of you the twelve minae, which you borrowed from me to buy the dapple-grey horse.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
As many great talents as you and I put together make; but these forty minae he paid by way of earnest.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
