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All the property has been valued at more than a talent, and what I claim, I value at five minae and a thousand drachmae respectively.

From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias

He never verifies bills, and then he once gave me in Stoa a slap on the shoulder—we will write four minae.

From So Runs the World by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

As many great talents as you and I put together make; but these forty minae he paid by way of earnest.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

The presents of the Libyans were graciously accepted by Cambyses, but the 500 minae which the Cyrenaeans sent, he threw with his own hand among the people because "it was too little."

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max

Has he given forty minae, too, to this person, to be as a deposit?

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)