uncia

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One-half uncia of silver would be 12 ozs.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

V. both readings, uncia or nucia are permissible, and make very little difference.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers

Five of these are placed at the same time in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper; these drip three centumpondia of lead, each of which contains half an uncia of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Another is made of half a libra of brick dust, a third of a libra of rock salt, an uncia and a half of vitriol, and one uncia of saltpetre.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

"Dicat films Albini: si de quincunce remota est uncia, quid superat? poteras dixisse." "triens." "eu! rem poteris servare tuam."

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde