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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Sichaeus, Silĭqua
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Silĭqua

κεράτιον). The smallest Roman weight, the sixth part of a scruple (scripulum) or the 1/144 part of an ounce. It was also the name of a small coin (siliqua auri), on which see Mommsen, Röm. Münzwesen, p. 791.

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