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† ĕrănus, i, m., = ἔραϝος, a fund contributed for mutual protection against want: concessum est eranum habere … si tali conlatione non ad turbas et ad inlicitos coetus, sed ad sustinendam tenuiorum inopiam utuntur, Plin. Ep. 10, 93; cf. ib. 92; Tert. Apol. 39.