AURUM CORONARIUM, in Roman Antiquity, a present of money collected in the provinces for a victorious general, which was originally expended for a golden crown (Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 22). The number of crowns sent to a general was sometimes very great. (Liv. xxxix. 7.)
AURUM CORONARIUM
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