mina
noun
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
minae
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pluralof mina.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Forty-four minae are due to him, both principal and interest.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
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 Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
For she did not dare trust herself to him at death, but gave to Antiphanes who was not a relative, but whom she trusted, three minae of silver for her burial, disregarding her own son.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
He had a dog of remarkable size and beauty, for which he had paid seventy minae.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
