Cyrus admired the man, and made him a present of ten thousand darics (2).
So it is a fine opportunity for yourself also, Xenophon, to exhibit your education.
The Aenianians, an Aeolian people inhabiting the upper valley of the Sperchius (the ancient Phthia); their capital was Hypata.
It is that we should set off for Hellas, and if any one stops behind, or is caught deserting before the whole army is in safety, let him be judged as an evil-doer.
Six, and consists of darics and smaller coins of Attic weight and of various types.
Revised Version of the Old Testament reads thus: "The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold," whereas the Authorised Version has "a thousand drams of gold.
You accepted a bribe of ten thousand darics to abandon the commerce of Cyprus and Memphis to the sailors of the Nile.
Indeed, on more than one occasion the king had discovered an authority in Ahimelek's darics that was lacking in his own mandates.
But he pressed his hand heartily with Marduk's--perhaps the sensation of the merchant's generous darics had not yet left his own palm.
Ten darics to one, you cannot catch the Dido within sight of land!
That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments.
Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Pythius, an old Phrygian of great riches, had entertained Xerxes with much hospitality, and offered him all his wealth, amounting to two thousand talents of silver and nearly four million darics of gold.
This generous offer Xerxes declined, and gave Pythius enough gold to make up his darics to an even four millions.
The stakes, as was to be expected, ran high, as much as a thousand darics (nearly L 1100.
His gold darics appear to have contained, on an average, not quite 124 grains of pure metal, which would make their value about twenty two shillings of our money.
The silver darics were similar in general character, but exceeded the gold in size.
The army and revenue were still, in spite of everything, the greatest in the world, but, if the darics had retained their value, the battalions had lost in strength.
These darics were stamped with a figure of the king, bearing a bow, or a javelin.
You will find a Persian pays like the lord he is, and that his darics always ring true metal.
Over the graceful shoulders fell a mass of clear gold hair, so golden one might have hidden shining darics within it.
Nothing, many will say, but some gold darics which will corrupt his statesmen, and some spices, carpets, and similar luxuries which good Hellenes can well do without.
Babouc gave her an hundred darics of gold, saying: "Had there been no other evil in the city but this, Ithuriel would have been to blame for being so much offended.
He owes us fifty daricsfor bringing him off, and we have our own to save.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
