uncia
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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
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
"Dicat films Albini: si de quincunce remota est uncia, quid superat? poteras dixisse." "triens." "eu! rem poteris servare tuam."
From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde
One-half uncia of silver would be 12 ozs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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