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“aes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“aes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
aes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
aes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
to be in debt: aes alienum habere
to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
(ambiguous) to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
(ambiguous) to be in debt: in aere alieno esse
(ambiguous) to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse
(ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
(ambiguous) to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
(ambiguous) to get out of debt: aere alieno liberari
(ambiguous) to be fined 10,000 asses: decem milibus aeris damnari
“aes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“aes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
