Example Sentences

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Alcibiades, for cakes on honey from Hymettus for Hetera Chrysalis, three minae.

From So Runs the World by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

But yet, Sir, for learning's sake, allow us, instead of crowns, livres, and francs, to have the dowry expressed in minae and talents, and to express the date in Ides and Kalends.

From The Learned Women by Wall, Charles Heron

Aye, you will lay out three minae and, as my friend, you will reckon twelve against me.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

The amount of the fine was two thousand minae, two for each heavy-armed soldier, as the law prescribes.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

Understand that you are sent hence valued at twenty minae.

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