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" Persia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft. "
A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger ... - Page 108
by William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1846 - 373 pages
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 8

1837 - 524 pages
...which U the only authority.) [See BROWNE.] DARPC (Aaptirdc, Daricus), a Persian coin of pure gold, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned, and kneeling upon one knee, upon the other with a sort of quadrata incusa, or deep cleft. Harpocration (in voc. AaoHjroi) ascribes...
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The Anabasis of Xenophon: Chiefly According to the Text of L. Dindorf; with ...

Xenophon - 1844 - 388 pages
...Saqtixoi/;. The daric was a Persian gold coin, " stamped on one side with the figure of a crowned archer kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of qvadrita incusa or deep cleft." It is supposed by some to have received its name from Darius Hystaspis....
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1843 - 1152 pages
...of In oscorides. the Ruscus Raccmosut.* DARE ACTIO'NEM. (Vid. ACTIO, p. 18.) DARI'CUS (dapeiitof), a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft. The origin of this coin is doubtful. We know from Herodotus' that Darius reformed the Persian currency,...
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith, Charles Anthon - 1847 - 1146 pages
...1)¡oscorides, the Ruscus Raccmosu*.' DARE ACTIO'NEM. { Vid. ACTIO, p. 18.) DARI'CUS (ôopeiKaç), a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep clilt The origin of this coin is doubtful. We know from Herodotus5 that Darius reformed the Persian...
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The Anabasis of Xenophon: chiefly according to the text of L. Dindorf ; with ...

Xenophon, John Jason Owen - 1847 - 410 pages
...Sacetxoit. The daric was a Persian gold coin, " stamped on one side with the figure of a crowned archer kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrita incusa or deep cleft." It is supposed by some to have received its name from Darius Hystaspis....
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith

Greek antiquities - 1848 - 1322 pages
...•/•ciico'f), or, to give the name in full, ffTarty SopciKo1;, the stater of Dartiia (Tbuc. viii. 28), was a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with « 3«4 rat of qmdrata incusa or deep cleft. We know fan Herodotus (jr. 1 66) that Dareius, the son...
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The Law Lexicon, Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence: Explaining All the ...

John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 pages
...we have «sy knowledge, is the Persian gold coin, ivied the daric, íaptutói, stamped on one «i» with the figure of an archer, crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of cuádrala incusa, or deep cleft. Genesius (Heb. Lexicon) suppose! the name to be derived from an ancient...
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The Anabasis of Xenophon, with Engl. notes, by C. Anthon

Xenophon (of Athens.) - 1848 - 560 pages
...Ten thousand Darics." About ¿£10,935 of our currency. The Daric was a Persian coin of pure gold, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer, crowned and kneeling on one knee, and on the other side with a sort of guadrata incusa, or deep cleft, as in the following...
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The Anabasis of Xenophon: Chiefly According to the Text of L. Dindorf, with ...

Xenophon, John Jason Owen - 1849 - 406 pages
...Sagtixoic. The daric was a Persian gold coin, "stamped on one side with the figure of a crowned archer kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrita incusa or deep cleft." It is supposed by some to have' received its name from Darius Hystaspis....
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A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities

William Smith - 1851 - 366 pages
...branches (dafyvai) which were carried by those who took part in its celebration. DAREICUS (dapeiKo£), a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...Dareius, king of Persia. It is equal to about 11 Is. }Qd. 1.76 farthings. DECEMVIRI. DAY. [DIES.] DEBTOR. [NEXUM.] DECE'MPEDA, a pole ten feet long, used...
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