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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 50 50 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 9 9 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 6 6 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 40-42 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. and Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.) 5 5 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 38-39 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D.) 3 3 Browse Search
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) 2 2 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) 2 2 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 43-45 (ed. Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 38-39 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 35-37 (ed. Evan T. Sage, PhD professor of latin and head of the department of classics in the University of Pittsburgh) 1 1 Browse Search
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2/24 of a pound, equal to 11 parts pure gold and 1 of alloy; silver, 22 2/240 of a pound, equal to 37 parts pure silver and 3 of alloy. A troy ounce of standard gold is coined into $3 17s. 10d. 2f., and an ounce of standard silver into 5s. 6d. Copper is coined in the proportion of 2 shillings to the pound avoirdupois. The relative value of gold and silver has been variable. Herodotus mentions it as13 to 1. Plato mentions it as12 to 1. Menander mentions it as10 to 1. Livy, B. C. 189,10 to 1. Julius Caesar exchanged at9 to 1. Early Emperors (average),12 to 1. From Constantine to Justinian,14 to 1. Modern times, from14 to 1 to 17 to 1. 9. A unit of value. See unit. Stand′ard-gage. A gage for verifying the dimensions, or any particular dimension, of articles, or their component parts, which are made in large numbers, and required to be of uniform size. The practice of making each corresponding part exactly similar was first adopted with government small-arm