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ἀργύριον

argurion · τό

small coin, piece of money

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 165 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀργύριον · argyrion — LSJ

small coin, piece of money

small coin, piece of money, Ar. Fr. 262, X. Oec. 19.16, etc.: pl. (v. Poll. 9.89), Ar. Av. 600, Eup. 155, X. l.c.: then,

2 money, sum, our money, cash, the money, the cash

collectively, money, Ar. Pl. 156, 158, al.; ἀ. ῥητόν a fixed sum, Th. 2.70; εἰς ἀ. λογισθέντα calculated in our money, X. Cyr. 3.1.33; ἀ. καθαρόν ‘hard cash’, Theoc. 15.36: in Com. with Art., τἀργύριον the money, the cash, δανείζεσθαι Ar. Nu. 756; ἀπαιτεῖν ib. 1247; κατατιθέναι Antiph. 124.14, etc.; so τἀ. καταβάλλειν Th. 1.27, etc.

II silver, lead oxide

= ἄργυρος, silver, πεντηκοσίας μνέας ἀργυρίου Hdt. 3.13; ἀ. ἐπίσημον and ἄσημον Th. 2.13; χρυσίον καὶ ἀ. Pl. Alc. 1.122e; ἀργυρίου ἄνθος lead oxide, Hp. Nat.Mul. 33.

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