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|lshtext=<b>argentum</b>: i, n. [[ἀργήεις]], [[ἀργής]], Dor. [[ἀργᾶς]], [[white]], [[like]] [[Tarentum]], from [[Τάρας]], Doed. Syn. III. p. 193; [[prop]]. [[white]] [[metal]]; cf. Sanscr. arǵunas = [[bright]]; raǵatam = [[silver]]; [[hence]],<br /><b>I</b> [[silver]], whose mineralogical [[description]] is [[found]] in Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95.<br /> Lit.: argenti metalla, Plin. 33, 6, 33, § 101: argenti aerisque metalla, Vulg. Exod. 35, 24: argenti [[vena]], Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95: argenti [[fodina]], v. argenti-[[fodina]]; argenti [[scoria]], id. 3, 6, 5, § 105: [[spuma]] argenti, id. 33, 6, 35, § 106: argenti duae differentiae (sunt), id. 33, 10, 44, § 127: [[argentum]] candidum, rufum, nigrum, id. ib.: [[argentum]] infectum, [[unwrought]] [[silver]], Liv. 26, 47; Dig. 34, 2, 19: argenti montes, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73: [[argentum]] purum, Foedus ap. Gell. 6, 5: argento circumcludere cornua, Caes. B. G. 6, 28: Concisum [[argentum]] in titulos faciesque minutas, Juv. 14, 291: [[quod]] [[usquam]] est Auri [[atque]] argenti, id. 8, 123: [[argentum]] et [[aurum]], Tac. G. 5; id. A. 2, 60, id. H. 4, 53; Vulg. Gen. 24, 35: [[aurum]] argentumque, Tac. H. 2. 82: [[aurum]] et [[argentum]], Vulg. Gen. 13, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wrought [[silver]], things made of [[silver]]; [[silver]]-[[plate]], [[silver]]-[[work]]: tu [[argentum]] eluito, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 29: nec [[domus]] argento fulget auroque renidet, Lucr. 2, 27; so, ridet argento [[domus]], Hor. C. 4, 11, 6: argenti [[quod]] erat solis fulgebat in armis, Juv. 11, 109: argentumque expositum in aedibus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15: [[navis]] plena argenti facti [[atque]] signati, [[full]] of [[wrought]] and [[stamped]] [[silver]], id. ib. 2, 5, 25; so Liv. 34, 25 and 26: [[argentum]] caelatum, Cic. Verr. 4, 23, 52; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: apponitur [[cena]] in argento [[puro]] et [[antiquo]], Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9: [[argentum]] et [[marmor]] [[vetus]] aeraque et artīs Suspice, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 17; so id. ib. 1, 16, 76; 2, 2, 181; id. S. 1, 4, 28: argenti vascula puri, Juv. 9, 141; 10, 19: vasa omnia ex argento, Vulg. Num. 7, 85; ib. Act. 17, 29: leve [[argentum]], Juv. 14, 62: [[argentum]] paternum, id. 6, 355: [[argentum]] [[vetus]], id. 1, 76: [[argentum]] mittere, id. 12, 43: Empturus pueros, [[argentum]], murrina, villas, id. 7, 133 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Silver as weighed [[out]] for [[money]], or [[money]] [[coined]] from [[silver]], [[silver]], [[silver]] [[money]]; and, as the [[most]] [[current]] [[coin]], for [[money]] in gen.: appendit pecuniam, quadringentos siclos argenti, Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: Ratio [[quidem]] [[hercle]] adparet; [[argentum]] οἴχεται, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15 sq. (quoted by Cic., Pis. 25 fin.): expetere, id. Cist. 4, 2, 73: adnumerare, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15; so id. Heaut. 4, 4, 15; id. Ad. 3, 3, 56; 4, 4, 20; 5, 9, 20 al.: argenti [[sitis]] famesque, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23; id. S. 1, 1, 86: [[quis]] audet Argento praeferre [[caput]], Juv. 12, 49: tenue [[argentum]] venaeque secundae, id. 9, 31: hic [[modium]] argenti, id. 3, 220: [[venter]] Argenti [[gravis]] [[capax]], id. 11, 41: Argentum et [[aurum]] non est mihi, Vulg. Act. 3, 6; 20, 35 et saep.—<br /><b>II</b> Argentum vivum, [[quicksilver]], Plin. 33, 6, 32, § 100; Vitr. 7, 8, 1 sqq.; so, [[argentum]] liquidum, Isid. Orig. 16, 19, 2.