darics

Alexander must have appreciated the additional gift of thousands of minted gold coins commonly known as darics that depicted the first Great King Darius as an archer.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Alexander must have appreciated the additional gift of thousands of minted gold coins commonly known as darics that depicted the first Great King Darius as an archer.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Alexander must have appreciated the additional gift of thousands of minted gold coins commonly known as darics that depicted the first Great King Darius as an archer.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

His "darics," as they were called by the Greeks, were, in the first instance, gold coins of a rude type, a little heavier than our sovereigns, weighing between 123 and 124 grains troy. [

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

Here Cyrus summoned Silanus, his Ambraciot soothsayer, and presented him with three thousand darics; because eleven days back, when sacrificing, he had told him that the king would not fight within ten days, and Cyrus had answered: “Well, then, if he does not fight within that time, he will not fight at all; and if your prophecy comes true, I promise you ten talents.”

Anabasis 2007

Working on the feelings of that prince, in language described elsewhere, he received from his entertainer a present of ten thousand darics.

Anabasis 2007

Xenophon, and were kind enough to repurchase the horse he had sold in Lampsacus for fifty darics; suspecting that he had parted with it out of need, and hearing that he was fond of the beast they restored it to him, refusing to be remunerated.

Anabasis 2007

When I was in banishment he honoured me in various ways, and made me also a present of ten thousand darics.

Anabasis 2007

I watched the money changer's hands sift through darics from Persia, coins from Sicily, from Libya, from Ionia.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

Once when some were offering him one thing, some another, as he was on a progress, a certain poor laborer, having got nothing at hand to bring him, ran to the river side, and, taking up water in his hands, offered it to him; with which Artaxerxes was so well pleased that he sent him a goblet of gold and a thousand darics.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003