borrowed from the Oppian usurers

Mŏnēta, ae (archaic gen. Monetas, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.), f. [moneo].

The mother of the Muses, a transl. of the Gr. Mnêmosunê: Mnêmosunê Moneta, Gloss. Philox.; cf. Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 47; Hyg. Fab. praef.: filia Monetas, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.—

A surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined: cum terrae motus factus esset, Ut sue plena procuratio fieret, vocem ab aede Junonis ex arce exstitisse;

quocirca Junonem illam appellatam Monetam,

Cic. Div. 1, 45, 101; cf. id. Phil. 7, 1, 1; Liv. 7, 28, 4; Ov. F. 1, 638; 6, 183; Val. Max. 1, 8, 3; Lact. 2, 7, 11:

ubi nunc aedes atque officina Monetae est,

Liv. 6, 20, 13.—

Transf.

The place for coining money, the mint: ad Philotimum scripsi de viatico, sive a moneta, sive ab Oppiis, i. e. taken from the mint or borrowed from the Oppian usurers, Cic. Att. 8, 7, 3; Sid. Carm. 23, 41:

monetae officinator,

master of the mint, Inscr. Orell. 3227:

monetae aequator,

ib. 3228.—

Coined money, coin, money ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

victaque concedit prisca moneta novae,

Ov. F. 1, 222:

nigrae, i. e. aereae,

Mart. 1, 100, 13; Paul. Sent. 5, 25, 1:

falsam monetam percussisse,

id. ib. 5, 12, 12:

probata,

Vulg. Gen. 23, 16.—

A stamp or die for coining money:

a novā monetā,

of a new stamp, Mart. 12, 55, 8.—Hence, trop.:

communi feriat carmen triviale moneta,

of the common stamp, in ordinary style, Juv. 7, 55:

jam tempus est quaedam ex nostrā, ut ita dicam, monetā proferri,

Sen. Ben. 3, 35, 1:

nomina Graeca Latinā monetā percussa,

of the Latin stamp, App. Mag. p. 298, 33.