argentum

argentum, i, n. [argêeis, argês, Dor. argas, white, like Tarentum, from Taras, Doed. Syn. III. p. 193; prop. white metal; cf. Sanscr. arǵunas = bright; raǵatam = silver; hence], silver, whose mineralogical description is found in Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95.

I.

A.. Lit.:

argenti metalla,

Plin. 33, 6, 33, § 101:

argenti aerisque metalla,

Vulg. Exod. 35, 24:

argenti vena,

Plin. 33, 6, 31, § 95: argenti fodina, v. argenti-fodina;

argenti scoria,

id. 3, 6, 5, § 105:

spuma argenti,

id. 33, 6, 35, § 106:

argenti duae differentiae (sunt),

id. 33, 10, 44, § 127:

argentum candidum, rufum, nigrum,

id. ib.:

argentum infectum,

unwrought silver, Liv. 26, 47; Dig. 34, 2, 19:

argenti montes,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73: argentum purum, Foedus ap. Gell. 6, 5:

argento circumcludere cornua,

Caes. B. G. 6, 28:

Concisum argentum in titulos faciesque minutas,

Juv. 14, 291:

quod usquam est Auri atque argenti,

id. 8, 123:

argentum et aurum,

Tac. G. 5; id. A. 2, 60, id. H. 4, 53; Vulg. Gen. 24, 35:

aurum argentumque,

Tac. H. 2. 82:

aurum et argentum,

Vulg. Gen. 13, 2.—

B.

Meton.

1.

Wrought silver, things made of silver; silver-plate, silver-work:

tu argentum eluito,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 29:

nec domus argento fulget auroque renidet,

Lucr. 2, 27; so,

ridet argento domus,

Hor. C. 4, 11, 6:

argenti quod erat solis fulgebat in armis,

Juv. 11, 109:

argentumque expositum in aedibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15:

navis plena argenti facti atque signati,

full of wrought and stamped silver, id. ib. 2, 5, 25; so Liv. 34, 25 and 26:

argentum caelatum,

Cic. Verr. 4, 23, 52; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 61:

apponitur cena in argento puro et antiquo,

Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9:

argentum et marmor vetus aeraque et artīs Suspice,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 17; so id. ib. 1, 16, 76; 2, 2, 181; id. S. 1, 4, 28:

argenti vascula puri,

Juv. 9, 141; 10, 19:

vasa omnia ex argento,

Vulg. Num. 7, 85; ib. Act. 17, 29:

leve argentum,

Juv. 14, 62:

argentum paternum,

id. 6, 355:

argentum vetus,

id. 1, 76:

argentum mittere,

id. 12, 43:

Empturus pueros, argentum, murrina, villas,

id. 7, 133 et saep.—

2.

Silver as weighed out for money, or money coined from silver, silver, silver money; and, as the most current coin, for money in gen.:

appendit pecuniam, quadringentos siclos argenti,

Vulg. Gen. 23, 16: Ratio quidem hercle adparet; argentum oichetai, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 15 sq. (quoted by Cic., Pis. 25 fin. ):

expetere,

id. Cist. 4, 2, 73:

adnumerare,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15; so id. Heaut. 4, 4, 15; id. Ad. 3, 3, 56; 4, 4, 20; 5, 9, 20 al.:

argenti sitis famesque,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 23; id. S. 1, 1, 86:

quis audet Argento praeferre caput,

Juv. 12, 49:

tenue argentum venaeque secundae,

id. 9, 31:

hic modium argenti,

id. 3, 220:

venter Argenti gravis capax,

id. 11, 41:

Argentum et aurum non est mihi,

Vulg. Act. 3, 6; 20, 35 et saep.—

II.

Argentum vivum, quicksilver, Plin. 33, 6, 32, § 100; Vitr. 7, 8, 1 sqq.; so,

argentum liquidum,

Isid. Orig. 16, 19, 2.