Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a copper (or, strictly, bronze) coin, the fourth part of the as.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.
- noun The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See
Cur .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one
quarter of anas .
Etymologies
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Examples
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| The Greek word '' 'κοδραντης' '' referred to the Roman '' quadrans '', the smallest coin in the Roman coinage system.
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| The Greek word '' 'κοδραντης' '' referred to the Roman '' quadrans '', the smallest coin in the Roman coinage system.
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One poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.
Babes with a Beatitude Linda P. Kozar 2009
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He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time.
Satyricon 2007
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As for the price exacted, it ranged from a quadrans to a very high figure.
Satyricon 2007
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In the public baths, where money was taken, each person paid a quadrans, about the value of our halfpenny, as Juvenal observes,
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The people, as though they had not duly rewarded his deserts when alive, but still were in his debt, decreed him a public interment, every one contributing his quadrans towards the charge; the women, besides, by private consent, mourned
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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As for the price exacted, it ranged from a quadrans to a very high figure.
The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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As for the price exacted, it ranged from a quadrans to a very high figure.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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