Argentum, argenti. Siluer: plate: mony.Argenti venas sequi. Lucret. Argenti riui.Virg. Spumæ argenti. Virg.Argenti splendor. Horat. Argentum. pro Nummo argenteo. Plaut. Ter. Monie.Argentum pastillatum. Bud. Argentum pustulatum. Suet. Pure siluer well tried.Argenti nummus.Plaut.Arldum argentum, Vide Aridus in AREO.Argentum suspicere. Horat. To esteeme money.Argenti sitis & fames. Horat. Couetousnesse.Argenti pallet amore. Horat. Argenti pondus immensum. Horat. Ingens argentÛ. Idem quod immensum argÊti põdus. Virg.Cælata argento bipennis.Virg.Argento perfecta pocula.Virg.Siluer cuppes. Argentum auro circundare.Virg.Absumere argeutum.Plaut.To spend.Circunuertere aliquÊ argÊro.Plaut.To circÛuent or beguile.Comparare argentum. Plaui. To get monie.Consicere argentum alicuius. Ter. To consume.Cudere argentum. Ter. To coyne.Decoquitur argentum experientibus.Liu.Is wasted in the triall.Imponere argentum in stipendium.Liu.Inuadere argentum.Cic. Inuenire argentum. Ter. Locare argentum, & Argentum locare fœnori.Plaut.To set to vsury.Pensare argento. Colum. Argentum pro Suppellectili argentea.Cic.Plate.Argentum factum.Cic.Siluer ready to be coined: also plate.Argentum signatum.Cic.Mony ready coyned.Argentum viuum. Plin. Duickesiluer.
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argentum, i, n. [a)rgh/eis, a)rgh/s, Dor. a)rga=s, white, like Tarentum, from *ta/ras, Doed. Syn. III. p. 193; prop. white metal; cf. Sanscr. arunas = bright; raatam = silver; hence], silver, whose mineralogical description is found in Plin. 33, 6, 31, 95. I. A..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.—B.Meton.1.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.—2.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 oi)/xetai, 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.—II. Argentum vivum, quicksilver, Plin. 33, 6, 32, 100; Vitr. 7, 8, 1 sqq.; so, argentum liquidum, Isid. Orig. 16, 19, 2.