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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of cistophorus.

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Examples

  • He celebrated his triumph on February 1st, and in the procession were carried 49 golden crowns, 34,200 Attic tetrachmas and 132,300 "cistophori" - a far less amount of specie than might have been expected in a triumph over the king.

    The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

  • The cistophori will be melted down and minted as sesterces and denarii.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The cistophori will be melted down and minted as sesterces and denarii.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • It is a question between _cistophori_ and _denarii_.

    The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • There were carried in the procession 230 of the enemy's standards, 3000 pounds of uncoined silver, 113,000 Attic tetrachmi, 249,000 cistophori, and numerous heavy vases of embossed silver, as well as the silver household furniture and magnificent apparel which had belonged to the king.

    The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

  • (_cistophori_), a vast amount of which Pompey had brought home and deposited in the treasury.

    The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • There were a lot of them in Sextus’s hoard, and I remember the story about the great Cicero’s brother being paid in cistophori.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There were a lot of them in Sextus’s hoard, and I remember the story about the great Cicero’s brother being paid in cistophori.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The _publicani_ at the second port demanded the payment of a duty again, which Cicero decides against them.] [Footnote 244: Schutz takes this to mean, "Are the quæstors now doubting as to paying _even cistophori_?"

    The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Rome became involved in the affairs of the East, there were always circulating in the city the tetradrachms of Antioch and Alexandria, the Rhodian drachmas, and the cistophori of the kings of Pergamus, afterwards coined in the province of Asia. [

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

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