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Line if.) LIBRJ PENDE is cot ia oar Marble 
as two dt{iin£t Words, as here reprefented, though 
in reality it fliould be but one, and figoifies the 
Berfe^chai: weighed or counted over the Money to 
the Seller : It fhoald be read LIBRIP END E, than 
whom there could not be a more proper Witnelsto 
thePurehafe. At the beginning of the Roman State 
their Money was uncoined, and called ALs rude , 
or grave? therefore paid by Weight ; whence comes 
the Word Libripens. Under Servius Tullius 
their fixth King, it begun to be coined, and paid 
by Tale ; but the Perlon who counted it over to 
the Receiver, (fill retained his primitive Appella- 
tion* Aimoft every confiderabie Town had its 
Libripendes , , Perloas of Skill in Money-Affairs, 
to determine Controverfies about the Value 
of it. 
An Tnfcription in Grater (p. mcxv. i.) is a 
ftrong Evidence of this : It was found at Nola in 
Campania, and fhows they had two Libytpendes 
there appointed by pubhek Authority. 
T, VEDIVS. T. F. 
' T. VITOR1 VS. CN. F 
II V I R I 
LIB RIPE NDES 
EX. D D. 
This Name they had, Quia libram mteam tene~ 
bant qua nummos penderent ; 
— ~ Libra mercatus & /Ere. Hor. Epift. II. 2. 
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And: 
