uncia

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"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

As for the large coins which weigh a drachma, a sicilicus, half an uncia, or an uncia, beat them into leaves.

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

Thus, we have a nail; pollex, pouce, pulgada, Swedish tum, for an inch; which word has been misapplied by our Saxon predecessors, and corrupted from the Latin uncia, which related only to weight.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver.

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

A centumpondium weighs 70.6 lbs. avoirdupois, an uncia 412.2 Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.

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