Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Oct 16, 2003 21:28
20 yrs ago
Latin term
assem
Non-PRO
Latin to English
Art/Literary
ut qui largitur assem interdum magis
placeat deo, quam qui largitur decem milia ducatorum.
so that he who gives _______ sometimes pleases god to a greater extent than he who gives ten thousand ducats.
this is from erasmus's comentaries on the new testamet.
what is "assem"
placeat deo, quam qui largitur decem milia ducatorum.
so that he who gives _______ sometimes pleases god to a greater extent than he who gives ten thousand ducats.
this is from erasmus's comentaries on the new testamet.
what is "assem"
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 | a penny |
Joseph Brazauskas
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| 5 +1 | a Roman coin |
Yuri Smirnov
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Proposed translations
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Joseph Brazauskas
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a penny
Lit. 'an ace', Latin sing. 'as'. It was a small bronze coin. Orig. it meant a much heavier weight of bronze, but through the coining of subdivsions from the mid 3rd cent. BCE and subsequent devaluations, it had come to mean a sum of little worth in class. Lat.
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Yuri Smirnov
Daily Translation since 1992
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