penny
penny
subs.
Use Ar. and P. ὀβολός, ὁ (about 1½ d.).
subs.
Use Ar. and P. ὀβολός, ὁ (about 1½ d.).
PENNY
*nummus teruncius. (☞ These words do not however express exactly the value of our penny so that it may be necessary sometimes to retain the term.): Not a penny ne numum quidem (e.g. will I give). To agree to a penny ad numum convenire (Cic.): to pay to a penny ad assem reddere aliquid (Plin. Ep.): not to be able to get a single penny ne nummum quidem auferre posse (Cic.).
*nummus teruncius. (☞ These words do not however express exactly the value of our penny so that it may be necessary sometimes to retain the term.): Not a penny ne numum quidem (e.g. will I give). To agree to a penny ad numum convenire (Cic.): to pay to a penny ad assem reddere aliquid (Plin. Ep.): not to be able to get a single penny ne nummum quidem auferre posse (Cic.).
penny: nearest terms,
1. as, assis, m. (at the time of the second Punic war = one ounce of copper, the weight of a penny, old coinage: later, used for a coin of insignificant value, vilis as, Hor. S. 1, 1, 43): v. Dict. Ant. s. v.
2. nūmus (sestertius): strictly, one fourth of a denarius, nearly two-*pence English: also used to denote a small sum (the unit of commercial calculations): it agrees to a p., ad numum convenit, Cic. Att. 5, 21, ad fin.: not a p. more, haud numo amplius! Pl.: the full form also occurs, Sen. Ep. 95, 59 (sestertio numo aestimare). More precisely, numus sestertius dimidiatus. (N.B.--Denarius is nearer to a shilling.)
1. as, assis, m. (at the time of the second Punic war = one ounce of copper, the weight of a penny, old coinage: later, used for a coin of insignificant value, vilis as, Hor. S. 1, 1, 43): v. Dict. Ant. s. v.
2. nūmus (sestertius): strictly, one fourth of a denarius, nearly two-*pence English: also used to denote a small sum (the unit of commercial calculations): it agrees to a p., ad numum convenit, Cic. Att. 5, 21, ad fin.: not a p. more, haud numo amplius! Pl.: the full form also occurs, Sen. Ep. 95, 59 (sestertio numo aestimare). More precisely, numus sestertius dimidiatus. (N.B.--Denarius is nearer to a shilling.)