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''Galen (6) and the fragment afcribed to Dlofcor- 
ddes fay, the Mina of Alexandria weighed 20 Ounces, 
cr 120 Drachms. By Drachms, Galen certainly- 
meant Denarii of 8 in the Oui>ce; for he tells us, that, 
in his time, a Drachm was always underftood to mean 
what the Romans call a Denarius (7). The Drachm 
of this Mina fhould weigh 84 grains. 
Laftly, Feftus fays, the Alexandrian Talent con- 
tained 12000 Denarii (8). If by Denarii he meant 
Attic Drachms, this Talent fliould be jufl double the 
-Attic. 
None of thefe talents could be the ftandard of the 
Ptolemaic money. Though, if Galen’s Alexandrian 
Mina weighed 160 ancient Attic Drachms, its Drachm 
would weigh io6.1 Troy grains, which comes near 
to the Ptolemaic ftandard. But the coins require a 
greater weight, and the Eginean Mina diould weigh 
1 66.1 Attic drachms. 
The Euboi'c Talent certainly came from Afia ; for, 
Herodotus tells us, the Kings of Perfia weighed their 
gold by that Talent (9). In the fame place he in- 
forms us, that the Babylonian Talent weighed 70 
Euboic Minas. Pollux fays, it weighed 70 Attic 
Minasi(i). Therefore the Euboic Talent lEould be 
equal to the Attic. But iElian tells us, it weighed 
(6) See the word Mva in the index to Stephens’s Greek 
Thefaurus. 
(7) Tlpo^nKov oTi xiyouSpj vwj tv Toiovroif oi’KO.friv, 
oTTip P'upt,x7oi Sluudpiov ovopccl^ov(Tiv. Galen, L. VIII. De compof. 
medicam. as quoted by Gronovius, L. II. c. 6. De Pecun. Vet. 
(8) Feftus, De Verborum Signif. v. Talentum. 
(9) Herod. L. III. § 89. (i) Pollux, L. IX, c, 6, § 86. 
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