"mna" meaning in English

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          "text": "Four thousand Athenian cleruchs were settled on lands taken from the wealthiest Chalcidians, the prisoners taken from both Chalcidians and Boeotians were later ransomed at two mnai per person, and their fetters dedicated on the Athenian acropolis (5. 77. 1–2).",
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          "ref": "1986, Timothy Long, Barbarians in Greek Comedy, Carbondale, Ill., Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 10:",
          "text": "On hearing of an athlete’s consumption of two mnai worth of figs and six pints of wine at one sitting he exclaims, “Apollo, Horus, Sabazius!”",
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          "ref": "1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 112:",
          "text": "The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).",
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          "text": "If once again the restorations in IG I³ 7 are right, the text says that the Praxiergidai are to dress the statue with a chiton costing two mnai or pay a fine of one mna.",
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          "text": "If once again the restorations in IG I³ 7 are right, the text says that the Praxiergidai are to dress the statue with a chiton costing two mnai or pay a fine of one mna.",
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