Looking for sentences and phrases with the word peculium? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Some places, such as Rome, allowed slaves to accumulate, manage, and use property in a peculium that was legally revocable but could be used to purchase their freedom.
Talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered.
Examples from Classical Literature
The institution of the peculium, or private fund, is of the first necessity for this purpose.
A son could acquire no property but with his father's consent, and what he thus acquired was called his peculium as of a slave.
Thus the slave gets a chance of acquiring what will be as a matter of fact a peculium.
The peculium, or private acquisitions of a slave by economy or donation, ought to be reckoned his property.
If they were not slaves they could not have peculium in the technical sense.
Freely's business, and he would be obliged to quit it without a peculium so desirable towards defraying the expense of moving.
For other references to the peculium for clothing, see Visit.
Each had a share of copra, her peculium, to dispose of for herself.
