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aes
[ eez ]
noun
- any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome. Compare as 2( def 1 ).
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In 1981 Roger co-founded AES, which evolved into a Fortune 500 global energy company with assets of $34 billion.
Hs autem rbus patrimnium effdit tantumque cnflvit aes alinum, ut ipse dceret sibi8 opus esse mllis sstertium, ut habret nihil.
The inhabitants of earth call us Aes-shee, for we have our dwellings within large, pleasant, green hills.
My armour is the aes triplex of a clear conscience, and a mind nourished by the precepts of philosophy.
In later times, pay was substituted for the aes hordearium, three times as much as that of the infantry.
Later Aes cyprium was the special designation, which was finally shortened to cyprium, as indicated above.
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