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Denarius   Listen
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Denarius  n.  (pl. denarii)  A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.






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... was at once his duty and his glory. He enlisted in the army with little hope of revisiting his home; he crossed seas and deserts and forests with the idea of spending his life in the service of his country. His pay was only a denarius daily, equal to about sixteen cents of our money. Marriage for him was discouraged or forbidden. However insignificant the legionary was as a man, he gained importance from the great body with which he was identified: he was both the servant and the master of the State. He had an ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord



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