[ J 
And hence we have the Words Stipendhm , *T)if 
pendium , Expenfie^ and the like. In Apuleius 9 s 
Metamorph . Book Xth, is the following Paflage : 
• — 'Sedne forte aliquis, inquam, ijl or um quos of- 
fers Aureorum , Nequam vel Adulter reperiatur y 
in hoc ip fo facculo conditos eos annulo tuo pranota , 
donee altero die Nummulario prxfente comproben - 
tur , where this Nummularius feems to be the fame 
astheL/£r//£W,who was generally called in tocount 
over and examine the Money at Payments for Pur- 
chafes, though fometimes a private Perfon or Friend 
to the Parties might probably perform this Office 
for them, and bean Evidence, upon Occafion, to 
the Fadis : To which end alfo they ufed to ad- 
hibit another Witnefs, as Herennius Agricola does 
here, who was one Tiberius Julius Erotes , and 
fometimes they added five more. The Form and 
Manner of doing it, was by asking a By-ftander, 
Licetne anteftari ? If he confented, the Demandant 
touched, or pulled, the lower Part of his Ear, as a 
Memorandum of what pafTed ; whence Horace iiv 
his IXth Satire, 
- — • — cafuvenit obvius illi 
Adverfarius , & quo tu turpiffime l magna 
Exclamat voce^ & Licet Anteftari ? ego verb 
Oppono Auriculam 
By the Law of the XII Tables, if he that w,a$ 
called to teftify in this manner, or the Libripens 
refufed afterwards to give his Evidence in the Cafe/ 1 1 
they were adjudged infamous. A . GelA. xv.c.i^.. 
Line 18.) EAR VM OLLARVMfeems toT>e 
aMiftakefor EORVM OLLARIORVM.' 
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