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- noun Plural form of
fortieth .
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The reference at Thucydides 8.101.1 to coins of Chios called “fortieths” may also refer to a small denomination, but we lack other evidence to clarify this obscure term.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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The reference at Thucydides 8.101.1 to coins of Chios called “fortieths” may also refer to a small denomination, but we lack other evidence to clarify this obscure term.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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It will hardly be said to reach us, the book with forty-man power in it, until it has been broken up into fortieths of itself.
The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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On one fortieth of the shares much higher interest was to be paid than on the other thirty-nine fortieths.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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I did everything from weddings to fortieths to corporate dinners handling budgets as big as
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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AH the villages in this vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifes a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine.
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All the villages in tliis vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifcs a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine.
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Thucydides’ word for these “pieces of money” is tessarakontas, literally, “a fortieth”; but scholars are not sure what these were “fortieths” of, or what three of them amounted to.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Thucydides’ word for these “pieces of money” is tessarakontas, literally, “a fortieth”; but scholars are not sure what these were “fortieths” of, or what three of them amounted to.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Then he found out about "voting" and "non-voting; the shares coming to him were eighteen-fortieths of the voting shares; the remainder was split between relatives and non-relatives.
Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957
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