uncia
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"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
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
This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
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
Another way is to take two unciae of prepared ore, five drachmae of roasted copper, one uncia of glass, or glass-galls reduced to powder, a semi-uncia of salt, and mix them.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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