semunciarius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sēmuncĭārĭus, a, um, adj. [semuncia],

amounting to a half-ounce ( one twentyfourth of an as): semunciarium tantum ex unciario faenus factum, one twenty-fourth of an as upon each as, for a year of ten months , or, acc. to our mode of computation, five per cent. for a full year , Liv. 7, 27, 3; cf. id. 7, 16, 1: asses, weighing half an ounce , Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 46 Jahn.

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