AES Definition

AES Sentence Examples

• A sum of money (aes equestre) was given to each eques for the purchase of two horses (one for himself and one for his groom), and a further sum for their keep (aes hordearium); hence the name equites equo publico.

• In later times, pay was substituted for the aes hordearium, three times as much as that of the infantry.

• These equites equo private had no vote in the centuries, received pay in place of the aes equestre, and did not form a distinct corps.

• Notably its treatment of prudence(4pov j aes) is a chaos.

• Next to its forests, which long supplied the Greek monarchs of Egypt with timber for their fleets, Cyprus was celebrated among the ancients for its mineral wealth, especially for its mines of copper, which were worked from a very early period, and continued to enjoy such reputation among both Greeks and Romans that the modern name for the metal is derived from the term of Aes Cyprium or Cuprium by which it was known to the latter.