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Menander, Monostichoi, 387

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

sēmuncĭālis: e, adj. semuncia,
I amounting to a half-ounce: asses, the twenty-fourth part of a pound in weight, Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 46 (Jahn, semiunciarius).