All persons in the state whose annual income amounted to less than two hundred medimni or drachmas were placed in the fourth class, and they must have constituted the large majority of the community.
The first class, who had no aristocratic titles, were called Pentacosio medimni, from possessing five hundred medimni or upward.
They had received two hundred and eighty thousand medimniof corn from Eumenes, that its value might be invested and the interest devoted to pay the fees of the tutors and schoolmasters of their sons.
Antiochus shall pay to the Romans ten thousand talents, in ten yearly instalments, of the best Attic silver, each talent to weigh not less than eighty Roman pounds, and ninety thousand medimni of corn.
On this occasion, however, the Senate affected to be ignorant of all this, though perfectly acquainted with what went on in the island, and granted them a license to import one hundred thousand medimni of corn from Sicily.
In abject terror Moagĕtes begged him not to do anything of the sort; and kept adding to his offer little by little, until at last he persuaded Cnaeus to take one hundred talents, and one thousand medimni of corn, and admit him to friendship.
When their ambassadors arrived he received them; and accepting a compliment of fifty talents, twenty thousand medimni of barley, and twenty thousand of wheat, admitted them to friendship with Rome.
In his arsenals were arms for thirty thousand men; eight million medimni of corn were stored in his fortresses, and such a mass of treasure as would pay an army of ten thousand men for ten years.
But the tax-gather had taken three medimni per jugerum, and so by extortion had trebled the tithes.
Eight medimni of corn per acre would be a good crop; ten would be the outside that under all possible favour of the gods the jugerum could yield.
Now the annual rent paid for each lot was eighty-two medimni of barley, and a proportionate quantity of oil and wine.
It is, however, evident that there would have been sufficient income to meet these demands, if we suppose that the 82 medimni were not Attic, but AEginetan, which were considerably larger.
Besides this he gave twelve thousand medimni of corn for their public games and sacrifices, and twenty thousand medimni for victualling ten triremes.
His queen, Chryseis, also gave a hundred thousand medimniof corn, and three thousand talents of lead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medimni" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
