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For the use of money was then infrequent amongst the Romans, but their wealth in cattle great; even now pieces of property are called peculia, from pecus, cattle; and they had stamped upon their most ancient money an ox, a sheep, or a hog; and surnamed their sons Suillii, Bubulci,

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

RAVOGLI -- specially GIULIA -- "There's something 'bout GIULIA So werry peculia '" -- (_Old Song_) -- in this short Opera, that is to say, an Opera which should be short were it not for the "waits" between the Scenes and Acts, which, as it is in the nature of weights to do, must always make even the lightest Opera seem heavy.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891 Various

Jeffersonian Democracy claimed to be the peculia advocate of the "Rights of Man."

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

This prevention is procured by the heightening of slave prices at such a rate as to keep the cost of freedom always greater than the generality of the slaves can pay with their own accumulated savings or _peculia_.

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

They had been divided as the _peculia_ of his sons, they had been promised as the dowry of his daughters.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

For this reason at this day they call property _peculia_, from _pecus_, a sheep, and on their oldest coins they marked the figure of an ox, a sheep, or a pig.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

About thf beginning of the feventh century thofe k Churches of Alia, which had been the diftingukhed care of the ApoJftles and peculia* objects of divine Revelation, were funk into a grofs degeneracy both of Faith and practice.

Eight sermons preached before the University of Oxford, in the year MDCCXCII, at the lecture founded by the late Rev. John Bampton .. Eveleigh, John, 1748-1814 1792

LiNNEVSi pater, Syftemati perHciendo ope - ram vltimam daret, frequentes in remotiflimas et partim plane antea ignotas regiones peregrinationes a botanicis inftitutae funt» quarum fruAus vel peculia - ribus libris vqI difperfis per varia fcripta, nominatim Societatum litterariarum commentationes, obferuatio - nibus continentur.

Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray .. Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 1784

Idem tamen peculia - nia fermenta refutavit, priorque caufas utiliter expofuit, ob quas chemica haere - iis ftare nequeat.

Elementa physiologiae corporis humani .. 1776