Darics
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
darics · ten thousand darics
in the texts
Against Timocrates
A Persian monetary or weight unit used to describe the scimitar’s value or weight.
Was it not he who, being appointed treasurer at the Acropolis, stole from that place those prizes of victory which our ancestors carried off from the barbarians, the throne with silver feet, and Mardonius’s scimitar, which weighed three hundred darics?
Anabasis
Persian money given by Cyrus to Clearchus and spent on raising an army.
at any rate, Cyrus gave him ten thousand darics, and he, upon receiving this money, did not turn his thoughts to comfortable idleness, but used it to collect an army and proceeded to make war upon the Thracians.