I.silver, whose mineralogical description is found in Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95.
I. A.. Lit.: “argenti metalla,” Plin. 33, 6, 33, § 101: “argenti aerisque metalla,” Vulg. Exod. 35, 24: “argenti vena,” Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95: argenti fodina, v. argenti-fodina; “argenti scoria,” id. 3, 6, 5, § 105: “spuma argenti,” id. 33, 6, 35, § 106: “argenti duae differentiae (sunt),” id. 33, 10, 44, § 127: “argentum candidum, rufum, nigrum,” id. ib.: “argentum infectum,” unwrought silver, Liv. 26, 47; Dig. 34, 2, 19: “argenti montes,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73: argentum purum, Foedus ap. Gell. 6, 5: “argento circumcludere cornua,” Caes. B. G. 6, 28: “Concisum argentum in titulos faciesque minutas,” Juv. 14, 291: “quod usquam est Auri atque argenti,” id. 8, 123: “argentum et aurum,” Tac. G. 5; id. A. 2, 60, id. H. 4, 53; Vulg. Gen. 24, 35: “aurum argentumque,” Tac. H. 2. 82: “aurum et argentum,” Vulg. Gen. 13, 2.—
B. Meton.
1. Wrought silver, things made of silver; silver-plate, silver-work: “tu argentum eluito,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 29: “nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet,” Lucr. 2, 27; so, “ridet argento domus,” Hor. C. 4, 11, 6: “argenti quod erat solis fulgebat in armis,” Juv. 11, 109: “argentumque expositum in aedibus,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15: “navis plena argenti facti atque signati,” full of wrought and stamped silver, id. ib. 2, 5, 25; so Liv. 34, 25 and 26: “argentum caelatum,” Cic. Verr. 4, 23, 52; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: “apponitur cena in argento puro et antiquo,” Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9: “argentum et marmor vetus aeraque et artīs Suspice,” Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 17; so id. ib. 1, 16, 76; 2, 2, 181; id. S. 1, 4, 28: “argenti vascula puri,” Juv. 9, 141; 10, 19: “vasa omnia ex argento,” Vulg. Num. 7, 85; ib. Act. 17, 29: “leve argentum,” Juv. 14, 62: “argentum paternum,” id. 6, 355: “argentum vetus,” id. 1, 76: “argentum mittere,” id. 12, 43: “Empturus pueros, argentum, murrina, villas,” id. 7, 133 et saep.—
2. Silver as weighed out for money, or money coined from silver, silver, silver money; and, as the most current coin, for money in gen.: “appendit pecuniam, quadringentos siclos argenti,” Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: Ratio quidem hercle adparet; argentum οἴχεται, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15 sq. (quoted by Cic., Pis. 25 fin.): “expetere,” id. Cist. 4, 2, 73: “adnumerare,” Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15; so id. Heaut. 4, 4, 15; id. Ad. 3, 3, 56; 4, 4, 20; 5, 9, 20 al.: “argenti sitis famesque,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23; id. S. 1, 1, 86: “quis audet Argento praeferre caput,” Juv. 12, 49: “tenue argentum venaeque secundae,” id. 9, 31: “hic modium argenti,” id. 3, 220: “venter Argenti gravis capax,” id. 11, 41: “Argentum et aurum non est mihi,” Vulg. Act. 3, 6; 20, 35 et saep.—
II. Argentum vivum, quicksilver, Plin. 33, 6, 32, § 100; Vitr. 7, 8, 1 sqq.; so, “argentum liquidum,” Isid. Orig. 16, 19, 2.
