 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1854 - 396 pages
...which were carried by those who took part in its celebration. DARE1CUS (&zp«x6f),agoldcoinofPer. sia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned...first Dareius, king of Persia. It is equal to about II. Is. Hid. 1.76 farthings. DEBTOR. [NEXTJM.] DECE'MPEDA, a pole ten feet long, used by the agrimensores... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1858 - 604 pages
...Chron. xxix. 7, and Ezra viii. 17. J Vide Buxtorfii Lexicon Rabbinicum, p. 577. • [The Uaric was stamped on one side with the figure of an archer, crowned, and kneeling upon one knee, and on tile other with u sort of quadrata incusa, or deep cleft. The gold Dane, of the weight of two Attic... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 1334 pages
...(oaptucos), or, to give the name in full, ara-rtip Sapui(6s, the stater of Dareius (Thuc, viii. 28), was a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of qnadrata incusa or deep cleft. \Vc know {mm Herodotus (it. 16B) that Darcius, the son of Ilystaspes,... | |
 | Xenophon, John Jason Owen - 1862 - 466 pages
...SapciKovs. The daric was a Persian gold coin, "stamped on one side with the figure of a crowned archer kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrita incusa or deep cleft." It is supposed by some to have received its name from Darius Hystaspis.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...It does not appear to havibeen analysed. DAIUC (¿apenco;, Darí^us), a Persian coin of pure gold, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned, and kneeling upon one knee, upon the other with a sort of quadrata incusa, or deep cleft. Harpocration (in roc. Aaptucot) ascribes... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 530 pages
...It does not appear to ha\v been analysed. DARIC (Aapeixo's, Dar'icus), a Persian coin of pure gold, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned, and kneeling upon one knee, upon the other with a sort of quadrata incusa, or deep cleft. Harpocration (in roc. Aapeutds) ascribes... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1868 - 492 pages
...took part in its celebration. DAREICUS (Saperos), or to give the name in full, the Stater of Darcius, a gold coin of Persia) stamped on one side with the...is supposed to have derived its name from the first Dareins, king of Persia. It is equal to about 1/. Is. lOrf. 1' 76 farthings. Dareicue. (British Miucum.)... | |
 | William Smith - Classical antiquities - 1870 - 1312 pages
...(Sapa/cos), or, to give the name in full, (TraTT/p Sapet/cos, the stater of Dareius (Time, viii. 28), was a gold coin of Persia, stamped on one side with the...other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft. We know from Herodotus (iv. 166) that Dareius, the son of Hystaspes, reformed the Persian currency,... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1870 - 1178 pages
...of Di oscorides, the Ruscux Raccmosus.' DARE ACTIO'NEM. ( Vid. Ac-no, p. 18.) DARl'CUS (iapeiKOf), a gold coin of Persia. stamped on one side with the...archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on toe other with a sort of qtiadrata incusa or deep cleft. The origin of this coin is doubtful. We know... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 722 pages
...annexed to Egypt, as Sennaar and Kordofan had previously been. DARIC, a Persian coin of pure gold, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned, and kneeling upon one knee, upon the other with a deep cleft. Wesseling and other writers, upon Silver Daric. British Museum. Actual... | |
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Persia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft. 
