uncia
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V. both readings, uncia or nucia are permissible, and make very little difference.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers
From time to time small pieces of sulphur, enveloped in or mixed with wax, are dropped into six librae of the molten copper, and consumed; the sulphur weighs half an uncia and a sicilicus.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
As for the large coins which weigh a drachma, a sicilicus, half an uncia, or an uncia, beat them into leaves.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Such liquation cakes should weigh up to three centumpondia, in each of which there is half an uncia of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
