Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sembella

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SEMBEL'LA. A small piece of Roman money, equal to half the libella, or the twentieth part of a denarius. (Varro, L. L. v. 174.) It would belong to the silver currency; but probably was only a nominal division, never actually coined.