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Modii

Modius \Mo"di*us\, n.; pl. Modii. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A dry measure, containing about a peck.

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modii

n. (plural of modius English)

Usage examples of "modii".

He had ordered them to supply 100,000 denarii and 50,000 modii of wheat, and they asked for time to send to the consul Hostilius and to Rome.

Supplies had been accumulated there and drawn from other places against the winter, and he had received from the Epirots 20,000 modii of wheat and 10,000 of barley on the understanding that the money for that corn should be paid to their agents in Rome.

Severus celebrated the secular games with extraordinary magnificence, and he left in the public granaries a provision of corn for seven years, at the rate of 75,000 modii, or about 2500 quarters per day.

They had, however, made no use of them, but demanded 100,000 modii of corn.

The Carthaginians reported that they had taken down to the coast one million modii of wheat and half a million of barley, to be transported wherever the senate should order.

They sent 200,000 modii of wheat to Rome and a similar amount to the army in Macedonia.

With them he sent to Macedonia 2,000,000 modii of wheat and the same quantity of barley.

In the course of the summer 200 mounted men, 10 elephants and 200,000 modii of wheat were sent by Masinissa to the army in Greece.