uncia
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A centumpondium weighs 70.6 lbs. avoirdupois, an uncia 412.2 Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
V. both readings, uncia or nucia are permissible, and make very little difference.
From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers
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
The uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
