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Quadrans

Part of Speech: noun

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1. A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.

2. The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

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405. We even know the price which was paid for being ferried across the Velabrum: " it was a quadrans, three times as much as one pays now for the boat at the Ripetta." - "Walks in Rome", Augustus J.C. Hare.

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