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Modius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Modius (plural
modii) may
refer to: an
ancient Roman unit for dry measures, (8.73 L) roughly...
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supply the city of Rome.
Rickman estimated that Rome
needed 40
million modii (200,000 tonnes) of
grain per year to feed its po****tion.
Erdkamp estimated...
- buy 33
kilograms (73 lb)
grain per
month at a below-market
price of five
modii. The
qualifying income threshold is not known, but
according to Caesar's...
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purchase and requisition; in one letter, a
request for
money to buy 5,000
modii (measures) of
braces (a
cereal used in brewing)
shows that the fort bought...
- say, of Constantia, have a
medimnos of 5
modii,
while those of
Paphos and the
Sicilians measure it as 4½
modii." In
ancient Greece,
measures of capacity...
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Placidia back to
Honorius and
received provisions, six
hundred thousand modii of wheat. From 416 to 418, Wallia's
Goths campaigned in
Hispania on Constantius's...
- pay in gold and paid with six
modii of land at
Llanfihangel instead.
Another dispute concerned a
church with
three modii of land
which Brochfael gave to...
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jugera 201.9 ha 499 acres
modius 16 ha 40 acres
Medieval Latin,
plural modii Except where noted,
based on
Smith (1851).
Metric equivalents are approximate...
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disputes with Cyfeilliog. One
disagreement concerned a
church with
three modii (about 120
acres or 50 hectares) of land
which Brochfael gave to his daughter...
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twelve years. The
Seleucids also
agreed to an
indemnity of 540,000
modii of corn. He was also
forced to
surrender all
prisoners and
deserters to...
