Now Aristophanes himself furnished most of the money; and when there was not enough, he persuaded his friends, asking for it and giving securities, and having forty minae of his half-brother at his house he used them up.
And while not spending more than twenty-five minae of the five thousand drachmae charged for their father's monument, he charged half that amount to himself, and half to them.
And he left for his wife twenty minae and thirty Cyzicene staters.
This proved that he had received a hundred minae loaned out on interest on a mortgage, and two thousand drachmae, and valuable furniture; also there came in every year corn from the Chersonesus.
For she did not dare trust herself to him at death, but gave to Antiphanes who was not a relative, but whom she trusted, three minae of silver for her burial, disregarding her own son.
Aristophanes purchased land and a house for more than five talents, supplied choruses for himself and his father for five thousand drachmae, and spent eighty minae as Trierarch.
He said he had, and going to his house we found that Diogeiton had given over to him (Alexis) twenty-four minae for the trierarchy.
All the property has been valued at more than a talent, and what I claim, I value at five minae and a thousand drachmae respectively.
Eight years after this the elder of the boys passed his examination (became a citizen), and Diogeiton summoned them and said that their father had left them twenty silver minae and thirty staters.
At the price of two minae each, their numerous prisoners were ransomed, and the captive chains suspended from the walls of the citadel.
I am ready to die if I do not prove that you have accepted more than forty minae from the Mitylenaeans.
Three minae to Amynias for a chariot and its two wheels.
Good gods, what am I going to do with this fine ten-minae breast-plate, which is so splendidly made?
In place of one third of this silver, they may, if they so choose, pay gold, at the rate of a mina of gold to ten minae of silver.
A metreta of wine costs a drachma, and a good kid or hare an obol, and a lamb from three to four obols; a fat pig weighing a hundred minae costs five drachmae, and a sheep two.
Four minae were equal to thirteen pounds six shillings and eightpence; five minae to sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence.
Now there is a temple of Athene in Lecythus, and Brasidas had proclaimed in the moment of making the assault that he would give thirty silver minae to the man first on the wall.
With these the Lesbians agreed to pay a rent of two minae a year for each allotment, and cultivated the land themselves.
Being now of opinion that the capture was scarcely due to human means, he gave the thirty minae to the goddess for her temple, and razed and cleared Lecythus, and made the whole of it consecrated ground.
But they also possess properties and extensive estates in the country of your ruined allies, bringing in incomes of a talent to Philocrates and thirty minae to the defendant.
But Demetrius manifestly is eager not only to exempt Aristides but Socrates likewise, from poverty, as from a great evil; telling us that the latter had not only a house of his own, but also seventy minae put out at interest with Crito.
Piso, who was with us, fell into dispute with him, offering to wager twenty minae that we could not ride here before midday.
The tale was correct and his last thirty minae had given him the victory.
Sophaenetus was fined ten minae for inadequate performance of his duty as one of the chief officers selected.
The demand was reported to Cyrus by the generals, and he undertook to give each man five silver minae as soon as Babylon was reached, and their pay in full, until he had safely conveyed them back to Ionia again.
My earrings were a present of his too, and so was that rug; and he gave me two minae the other day, besides paying our rent.
We can't all afford necklaces and rugs and two minae presents.
For this they were tried before the Mantineans as judges, and, as Aratus did not appear, Aristippus, who was prosecutor, won his cause and got a fine of thirty minae laid upon the Achaeans.
Kleomenes, who was confined to the territory of Lacedaemon, proceeded to emancipate all helots who could pay a sum of five Attic minae for their freedom, by which means he raised a sum of five hundred talents.
The Retennu contributed at one time 1,718 minae of sweet wine.
The stone, which in shape is not unlike a duck, has the inscription: "Ten minae of Ilgi.
Nearly 122 pounds; and thirty minae a month to each ship (the crew of each ship being taken at two hundred) = three obols a day to each man.
The terms of agreement were precise, thirty minae (4) a month per vessel to be given, whatever number of vessels the Lacedaemonians might choose to maintain.
The presents of the Libyans were graciously accepted by Cambyses, but the 500 minae which the Cyrenaeans sent, he threw with his own hand among the people because "it was too little.
Let the law then order a moderate funeral of five minae for the first class, of three for the second, of two for the third, of one for the fourth.
The contributor of five minae (19) will on the same principle get more than a third, (20) while the majority of Athenians will get more than cent per cent on their contribution.
You've already got tenminae with you; or reckon up the account: thirty minae I gave for your freedom-- PHILE.
Forty-four minae are due to him, both principal and interest.
What reason is there, then, that if he doesn't return, you should not pay me twenty minae for him?
I gave three minae for the two, besides the carriage.
As many great talents as you and I put together make; but these forty minae he paid by way of earnest.
You have received, as far as I understand, forty minae of Philolaches.
Forty having been already paid (according to his story) as a deposit, and there being 120 minae in two talents.
He sent into Liguria to buy soldiers, three thousand mountaineers accustomed to fight with bears; they were paid for six moons in advance at the rate of four minae a day.
The food for the crews, amounting to twenty minae a month for each trireme--" "I know!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
