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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You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
The presents of the Libyans were graciously accepted by Cambyses, but the 500 minae which the Cyrenaeans sent, he threw with his own hand among the people because "it was too little."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker
Aristophanes purchased land and a house for more than five talents, supplied choruses for himself and his father for five thousand drachmae, and spent eighty minae as Trierarch.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
And to such the two minae per annum, paid by the Lesbians from the produce of each κλῆρος, would appear a reasonable if not a sumptuous provision of livelihood.
From On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay by Hugh E. (Hugh Exton) Seebohm
All the property has been valued at more than a talent, and what I claim, I value at five minae and a thousand drachmae respectively.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
