Modius

The operational modius is almost AIR like in that it would be a HIGH .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The bust of Serapis with the 'modius' on his head. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Literally, containing a "modius," which contained sixteen sextarii, something more than a peck of dry-measure English.] [Footnote 3: _The store-closet_) -- Ver. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1847)

Antoher reqired you to assume that a piece of evidence that would normally be character evidence qualified as modius operandi when it was far from obvious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But that, screamed the furious crowds, was when wheat fetched ten sesterces the modius, not forty! ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

The Senate has no choice, it must buy grain from Sextus, who is charging forty sesterces the modius. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Granting him a few greedy admirals and overheads—but not nearly as many overheads as Rome and you bear—Caesar Octavianus and his abacus have arrived at an average of twenty sesterces the modius in clear profit. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

The harvest that year sold for ten sesterces the modius, and Italia rejoiced. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

His admiral Menodorus invaded Sardinia and threw Lurius out, which means Octavianus has no source of grain left save what he can buy from Sextus at grossly inflated rates—up to twenty-five or thirty sesterces the modius. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

They are not enough to pay for ships as well as buy stolen wheat from Sextus Pompeius for thirty sesterces the modius! ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

That means state wheat will cost fifty sesterces the modius, while the private vendors are talking of charging sixty. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Tell him he can keep his free grain, but that I expect him to sell me grain for my legions at the usual wholesale price of five sesterces the modius, not a penny more. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

Discordius modius, I [summon] you to [ban] everyone from [the world]. ❋ 69420tard (2022)