Sentence examples for the aureus from inspiring English sources
noun
A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 to 309 , equal to 25 denarii.
The controls failed and the aureus vanished, to be succeeded by Constantine's gold solidus.
His gold augustale (patterned after the aureus) and their halves, struck about 1231 at Brindisi and Messina, were accompanied by billon deniers.
It was worn as a symbol of support for the conspirators' cause, and next door to the "aureus" is a video of Royal Shakespeare Company actor Paterson Joseph holding the coin and delivering a speech by Brutus.
Diocletian sought to bring order into the economy by controlling wages and prices and by initiating a currency reform based upon a new gold piece, the aureus, struck at the rate of 60 to the pound of gold.
Augustus (27 bc ad 14) based the coinage on the aureus of 1/42 of a pound of gold, equivalent to 25 denarii, each of 1/84 of a pound of silver, the metals being struck almost pure.
The Texas Instruments DA710 digital audio processor is the latest in the Aureus family of multichannel-audio encoding and decoding digital signal processors from TI.
From the perspective of the Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA), the organism is an equal opportunity guest in the nasal passages of man or mammal.
Here we report the biochemical features of the Staphylococcus aureus NDK and the mutant enzymes.
In the S. aureus genome the PGM performed better.
Would Sally Clark have been found guilty in 1999 if the details of the staphylococcus aureus findings had been included in Dr Williams' report?
Existing examples of the codex aureus date from the 8th and 9th centuries.
