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151. The most accurate modern writers have employed Price to expre the value of a thing in relation to money; the quantity of money for which it will exchange. J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. i. § 2. The price of a given article [in market] is the approx i money, at which exchanges of the article for money were mate mathematical expre ion of the rates, in terms of actually made at or about a given hour on a given day. Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 465. 31. Esteem; high or highest reputation. Ffor proude men in price haue playnly no fryndes, But euery mon with enuy ertis hom skathe. The river Ladon Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4840. of all the rivers of Greece had the Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, ii. price for excellent purene and sweetne . 41. Prize; award. Sche seyde, Y have welle sped That soc he a lorde hath me wedd, That beryth the pryce in prees. The name was given by ancient writers to the second and third of these forms, but especially to the second with ini- tial spondee in each colon. This was regarded by many as a variation of a dactylic hexameter with a spondee in the first, fourth, and sixth places, a diæres is being made after A pricet, to approval; well. the third foot and the preceding syllable lengthened: thus, IMG:content-0932.jpg:[ocr errors] See Satyric . Priapic (pri-ap'ik), a. [ Priapus +-ic.] Of or relating to Priapus, or to the cult and myths concerning him; phallic. The ithyphallic Hermes, represented after the fashion of the Priapic figures in paintings on the walls of caves among the Bushmen.