modius

A more probable account represents them not to have exceeded one modius.

Would you agree to sell it to me for the same ten sesterces the modius?

The modius was a measuring device used to measure grain/corn.

The Queen is shown wearing a modius and double plunes.

A statue of him carrying a modius lay under the monument's vault.

The coffin shows the queen with a tripartite wig and a modius.

I will buy it from you out of my aedilieian fines, but they won't run to more than two sesterces the modius.

One modius weighed thirteen pounds, or six kilograms.

Sell it for four sesterces the modius," said Atticus, "and pop a bit of money into your own purse.

That means state wheat will cost fifty sesterces the modius, while the private vendors are talking of charging sixty.

The harvest that year sold for ten sesterces the modius, and Italia rejoiced.

Nebettawy shown with a cap wig, a fairly simple modius and the double plumes.

I'll buy my grain at two sesterces the modius, and sell it for three sesterces.

In this time of poor harvests, he's asking fifteen sesterces the modius, which I agree is extortionate.

So Im offering to pay wheat farmers thirty sesterces the modius for their surplus.

Unless the modius was a great deal larger than that of earlier times, the tax rate was comparable to that under the Romans.

The building hosted a silver exemplar of the modius, the largest Roman dry measure unit and was used above all in the cereals trade.

But that, screamed the furious crowds, was when wheat fetched ten sesterces the modius, not forty!

Septimus Modius, known from an inscription.

The Senate has no choice, it must buy grain from Sextus, who is charging forty sesterces the modius.

Modius may refer to:

Marcus Modius, spoken of by Cicero.

Her hair is in a "melon-like" style with two long ringlets falling down over her shoulders and a modius on her head.

Modius, the Price of Gary is none too happy about the situation, as he was intending to make an important announcement, which will now have to wait.

This crown is worn on a uraeus shaped modius and on top of what looks like a khat headdress.