Quadrans
Usage examples for Quadrans:
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The people, as if they had done nothing during his life to honour him as he deserved, and were now for the first time to show their gratitude, decreed him a public funeral, and moreover that every person should contribute the coin called quadrans to show him respect.
"Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)" – Plutarch -
The people, as though they had not duly rewarded his deserts when alive, but still were in his debt, decreed him a public interment, every one contributing his quadrans towards the charge; the women, besides, by private consent, mourned a whole year, a signal mark of honor to his memory.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans" – Clough, Arthur Hugh -
He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time.
"The Satyricon, Complete" – Petronius Arbiter -
As for the price exacted, it ranged from a quadrans to a very high figure.
"The Satyricon, Complete" – Petronius Arbiter