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Mat_26:9. Πολλοῦ ] put more precisely in Mar_14:5; Joh_12:5. On the expensiveness of spikenard, a pound of which is alleged to have cost even upwards of 400 denarii, see Plin. N. H. xii. 26, xiii. 4.
καὶ δοθῆναι ] the subject (the equivalent in money, had it been sold) may be inferred from the context ( πραθῆναι πολλοῦ ). See Kühner, II. 1, p. 30 f.