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But the game with some veering of fortune went the freedman's way. He won a denarius; then another; then a third; lost a fourth time; won back everything and five denarii more; and finally his opponent, heated with play, consented to stake two gold pieces. "What did you say a minute ago to the landlord?" muttered Phaon, feeling that the undiluted liquor was getting the best of him.
Fortunately, I still had my luck-piece an ancient Roman coin with me. "'Now, thought I, 'let the antique beer check decide it. I will cinch this question by tossing up. If it falls heads, I am Manysnifters, and if the reverse appears, I am the Professor. I will abide by the decree of Fate. "Up went the Denarius, striking the asphalt with a merry ring in its fall.
To a geologist the temples of Karnak and the New Law Courts would be absolutely contemporaneous; he has no means by which he could discriminate in date between a scarabæus of Thothmes, a denarius of Antonine, and a bronze farthing of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
When his house on the Palatine hill was accidentally destroyed by fire, the veteran soldiers, the judges, the tribes, and even the people, individually, contributed, according to the ability of each, for rebuilding it; but he would accept only of some small portion out of the several sums collected, and refused to take from any one person more than a single denarius . Upon his return home from any of the provinces, they attended him not only with joyful acclamations, but with songs.
It was otherwise in the east. Here, where the number of the states coining money from olden times and the quantity of native coin in circulation were very considerable, the -denarius- did not make its way into wider acceptance, although it was perhaps declared a legal tender.
"Have a care," said Cleopatra, laughing behind her sunshade, "or he will drag you into the water. You must give him line when he pulls hard." "Not a denarius will I give!" rudely responded Antony. "I mean to have this halibut or Hades!" At this moment the man under the boat, being out of breath, let the line go, and Antony, falling backward, drew up the salted herring.
"The tyrant is dead," and from all the camp beneath them and from the walls of the beleaguered city the joyous cry came echoing back, "He is dead, Maximin is dead!" I sit in my study, and upon the table before me lies a denarius of Maximin, as fresh as when the triumvir of the Temple of Juno Moneta sent it from the mint.
"But you are a Jew," said the Rabbi, earnestly. "You are a Jew, and of the line of David. It is not possible you can find pleasure in the payment of any tax except the shekel given by ancient custom to Jehovah." Joseph held his peace. "I do not complain," his friend continued, "of the amount of the tax a denarius is a trifle. Oh no! The imposition of the tax is the offense.
Centuries come and go; but the plot of the drama is unchanged, and the same characters play the same parts. Only the actors cast for them are new. It is much worn, this denarius, and the lines are softened and blurred, as of right they should be, when you think that more than two thousand years have passed since it felt the die.
Two bracelets of thick twisted gold, and a chain, also of gold, were found with them. Another labouring man, hearing of this discovery, carefully searched the spot whence they were taken, and found a denarius of Geta, which may aid us in arriving at some conclusion as to the age of these curious works. The stone set in both rings is a cut agate.
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