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Denarii

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DENARII. An ancient general term for any sort of pecunia numerata, or ready money. The French use the word denier in the same sense: payer de ses propres deniers.


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Judas Iscariot, observing this act of apparent extravagance, said: "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor?
The significance attributed to the denarii given to the innkeeper and the Samaritan's own beast may seem even more far-fetched (QUAESTIONES EVANGELIORUM II, 19).
When those around complain in mundane terms that this effusion of oil is a "waste" because it "could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor" (vv.
 
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