You have one thing I desire, and I will pay you five thousand aurei to relinquish it--five thousand aurei," the Jew whispered.
For that, I say, each of you shall have five thousand aurei added to his wealth.
The five aurei promised him by Menecreta sharpened his resourceful wits.
It took me six years to save up twenty-five aurei which should purchase my child: twenty for her price, five for thy reward, for thou alone canst help me, an thou wilt.
Ten aurei should be the highest bid for a maid without guarantees as to skill, health or condition.
Fifty aurei did Arminius Quirinius demand as her price and I worked my fingers to the bone so that in time I might save that money.
She was very happy now that her golden hair was allowed to stream down her shoulders, and that it was only because the praefect had so ordered it that the low price of twenty aurei would be accepted for her.
Oh I should never dare," she replied, her voice trembling at the mere suggestion of such boldness, "but I did promise thee five aurei if I succeeded in purchasing the child.
And how many aureididst promise to Hun Rhavas for helping thee to defraud the State?
The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei for this slave.
The girl, publicly offered under unfavourable conditions, and unbacked by the auctioneer's laudatory harangues, could easily be knocked down for twenty aurei or even less.
She hath twenty aurei to command, and the girl is not worth much more than that.
Ten aurei then," said Hun Rhavas raising the hammer, whilst with hungry eyes the mother watched his every movement.
If you buy the estate for less, you will have a right of action against him, for a direction to buy an estate for a hundred aurei is regarded as an implied direction to buy, if possible, for a smaller sum.
As an instance of stipulation in diem, as it is called where a future day is fixed for payment, we may take the following: 'Do you promise to give ten aurei on the first of March?
If the terms of your stipulation run 'Do you promise to pay me ten aurei a year so long as I live?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aurei" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
