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Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

This is a rhetorical question. You can translate it as a strong statement. Alternate translation: "This perfume could have been sold for three hundred denarii and the money could have been given to the poor!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)

three hundred denarii

You can translate this as a numeral. Alternate translation: "300 denarii" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)

denarii

A denarius was the amount of silver that a common laborer could earn in one day of work. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bmoney)