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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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However, this same servant took no pity on someone who owed him the tiny (by comparison) sum of 100 denarii (a denarius was one day's wage and 6,000 denarius equalled one talent).
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