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- noun Plural form of
siliqua .
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Examples
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If a free man be caught thieving, up to the amount of 20 siliquae, beans, _i. e._ one gold piece -- though Pope Gregory makes the solidus
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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(aureus) 24 siliquae -- he replaces the theft, and pays 80 solidi, or dies; and a slave one half, or dies.
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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