Siliqua
κεράτιον
Siliqua (κεράτιον) was the smallest Roman weight, being the sixth part of a scruple, scripulum, or 1/144 of an ounce. [PONDERA] Tho siliqua auri is spoken of as a coin in the time of Constantius II.: according to Mommsen (Röm. Münzwesen, p. 791), it is represented by the silver coins of the period of the weight of 36 grains, which may have been equivalent to 3 grs., the weight of the siliqua, in gold.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.