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Headword:
Assaria
Adler number: alpha,4126
Translated headword: assaria
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] obols.[1] Numa, who became the first king of the Romans after Romulus, first paid the Romans [with coins] made from iron and bronze -- everyone before him filling that need through leather and potsherds; these he named from his own name "nummia", as Tranquillus[2] says.
Greek Original:Assaria: hoi oboloi. Noummas, ho prôtos basileus meta Rhômulon Rhômaiôn gegonôs, apo sidêrou kai chalkou pepoiêmena prôtos echarisato Rhômaiois, tôn pro autou pantôn dia skutinôn kai ostrakinôn tên chreian plêrountôn: haper ônomasen ek tou idiou onomatos noummia, hôs phêsi Trankulios.
Notes:
Similar material in John of
Antioch (fr.4.62 Roberto). For Numa see generally
nu 515. Early Rome had no coinage, however, and the etymology suggested here is worthless.
[1] The smallest Roman coin, the as, glossed by the smallest Greek one.
[2] i.e.
Suetonius. See generally
tau 895.
Keywords: biography; chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; historiography; history; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 December 2001@13:57:25.
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