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ἀργύριον [υ^], τό,
A.small coin, piece of money, Ar.Fr.262, X.Oec.19.16, etc.: pl. (v. Poll.9.89), Ar.Av.600, Eup.155, X.l.c.: then,
2. collectively, money, Ar.Pl.156,158, al.; ἀ. ῥητόν a fixed sum, Th.2.70; εἰς ἀ. λογισθέντα calculated in our money, X.Cyr.3.1.33; ἀ. καθαρόν 'hard cash', Theoc.15.36: in Com. with Art., τἀργύριον the money, the cash, “δανείζεσθαι” Ar.Nu.756; ἀπαιτεῖν ib.1247; “κατατιθέναι” Antiph.124.14, etc.; so “τἀ. καταβάλλειν” Th.1.27, etc.
II. = ἄργυρος, silver, “πεντηκοσίας μνέας ἀργυρίου” Hdt.3.13; ἀ. ἐπίσημον and “ἄσημον” Th.2.13; “χρυσίον καὶ ἀ.” Pl.Alc.1.122e; “ἀργυρίου ἄνθος” lead oxide, Hp.Nat.Mul.33.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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