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Pensum

(from pendo) That which is weighed out as a task, especially of a portion of wool given to female slaves to spin (Iustin. i. 3).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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