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# Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?
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This is a rhetorical question. You can translate it as a strong statement. Alternate translation: "This perfume could have been sold for three hundred denarii and the money could have been given to the poor!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# three hundred denarii
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You can translate this as a numeral. Alternate translation: "300 denarii" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
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# denarii
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A denarius was the amount of silver that a common laborer could earn in one day of work. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bmoney]])
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