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  • And she herself placed all her possessions, including four hundred centenaria [10] of gold, in a single ship and embarked on it some of those most faithful to her and bade them sail to Epidamnus, and, upon arriving there, to anchor in its harbour, but to discharge from the ship nothing whatever of its cargo until she herself should send orders.

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • [S] 526 A.D. [T] 531 A.D. But at a later time [60] Theodatus, the ruler of the Goths, upon learning that Belisarius had come to Sicily, made a compact with the Germans, in which it was agreed that the Germans should have that portion of Gaul which fell to the Goths, and should receive twenty centenaria [61] of gold, and that in return they should assist the Goths in this war.

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • But as for me, if estates should be provided me which yielded an annual income of no less than twelve centenaria, [26]

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • Therefore, they say, thirteen hundred centenaria [28] were expended by him to no purpose.

    History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius

  • The figure was drawn from a specimen obtained from the indurated sand beneath the miocene bed at Elizabethtown, Bladen county, and is referred to the centenaria but with doubt.

    Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

  • An interestin­g place to start is a book called, "Perfect Health Diet" which is a Paleo-base ­d diet book written by two PhDs who were quite sick before healing themselves through their diet; their diet plan actually resembles the Pacific Islander diet where you see very healthy centenaria ­ns.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Todd Hartley 2012

  • El ex presidente de REFIDOMSA dijo que este grupo de empresas y personas de Estado se han dedicado a fomentar la pobreza en Haití, proponiendo que la Republica Dominicana sirva de muleta a la centenaria situación de miseria y marginalidad que viven la gran mayoría de nuestros vecinos.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010

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