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Definition of Choenixes
1. choenix [n] - See also: choenix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choenixes
Literary usage of Choenixes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1843)
"That if either side transgressed in any part3 thereof, 1 [" For every man, two
Attic mon food in Greece), and eight choenixes of barley bread". ..."
2. The Apocalypse of St. John: A Commentary on the Greek Text by James Joseph Louis Ratton (1915)
"In ordinary seasons eight choenixes of wheat were sold for a denarius. The "
voice " predicts a famine in which food grains would be raised in price about ..."
3. Dissertations upon the principles and arrangement of a harmony of the by Edward Greswell (1837)
"... (though the Latin writers commonly put it at one seventh,) eight choenixes
every six days—at the rate of a ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... should permit the Lacedemonians on the mainland to carry over a stated quantity
of provisions to those in the island, two Attic choenixes* of meal, ..."
5. The Life of the Ancient Greeks: With Special Reference to Athens by Charles Burton Gulick (1902)
"... the Mesopotamian desert that two choenixes of either wheat or barley cost four
shekels, or thirty obols. This would make the price of a ..."
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