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Title: School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ho had the superintendence of themint were the Triumviri Monetales, whowere perhaps first appointed about b. c. 269.Under the republic, the coining of moneywas not a privilege which b longed exclu-sively to the state. The coins struck in thetime of the republic mostly bear the namesof private individuals ; and it would seemthat every Roman citizen had the right ofhaving his own gold and silver coined in thepublic mint, and under the superintendenceof its officers. Still no one till the time of theempire had the right of putting his ownimage upon a coin: Julius Caesar was thefirst to whom this privilege was granted.MONEY. (Aes; Argentum ; Au- RUM.) MONILE (wp^os), a necklace. Neck-laces were worn by both sexes among themost polished of those nations which theGreeks called barbarous, especially the In-dians, the Egyptians, and the Persians.Greek and Roman females adopted themmore particularly as a bridal ornament.They were of various forms, as may be seenby the following specimens : —
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MONILIA, NECKLACEa. MONTHS. (CALENnARIUM.) MONUMENTUM. (Funus, p. 186, a.)MOSAICS. (DoMus, p. 144, a.)MOURNING for the dead. (Fuxus.)MULSUM. (ViNUM.)MUNERATOR, (Gladiatores.)MUNICEPS, MUNICIPIUM. (Co- LONIA ; FoEDERATAE CivITATES.)MUNUS. (HONORES.) MUNUS. (Gladiatores.) MURALIS CORONA. (Corona.) MUSCULUS was a kind of vinea, oneof the smaller military machines, by whichthe besiegers of a town were protected, MUSEUM (fJioi>ae7ov), the name of aninstitution founded by Ptolemy Philadel-phus, about b, c. 280, for the promotion oflearning and the support of learned men.The museum formed part of the palace, andcontained cloisters or porticoes (-n-eptTraros),a public theatre or lecture-room (e;e5/ja),and a large hall (oIkos (J-eyas), where the NAVALIA. learned men dined together. The museumwas supported by a common fund, suppliedapparently from tlie public treasury; andthe whole institution was under the super-intendence of a priest, who was ai)pointedby the king, and after Egypt became a

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