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n. (plural of byzant English)
Usage examples of "byzants".
If it be less than a thousand byzants, let him have jewels to make it up.
His legerdemain can transform zechins and byzants into doits and maravedis.
Instead of a rigorous exaction of his debt, he accepted a sum of thirty thousand byzants, for the ransom of seven thousand poor.
While his bravest allies were content with three byzants or pieces of gold, for their monthly pay, an ounce, or even two ounces, of gold were assigned to the Catalans, whose annual pension would thus amount to near a hundred pounds sterling: one of their chiefs had modestly rated at three hundred thousand crowns the value of his future merits.
Even in the prosperous times of John Ducas Vataces, the byzants were composed in equal proportions of the pure and the baser metal.
The younger Andronicus complained, that in four years and four months a sum of 350,000 byzants of gold was due to him for the expenses of his household, (Cantacuzen l.
Even in the prosperous times of John Ducas Vataces, the byzants were composed in equal proportions of the pure and the baser metal.
The younger Andronicus complained, that in four years and four months a sum of 350,000 byzants of gold was due to him for the expenses of his household, (Cantacuzen l.
At the same time, they heard Richard speak to some one within: --"Go, speed thine office quickly, sirrah, for in that consists thy mercy--ten byzants if thou dealest on him at one blow.