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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bonus

A bounty over and above the interest of a share in any company. (Latin, bonus quæstus, a good profit or bounty. The interest or fruit of money put out in an investment was by the Romans called the quæstus.)

Bonus Homerus. (See Homer.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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