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72. Attic Minas (2)} and if fo, the-Euboic Talent' 
Ihoiild be heavier than the Attic, in the proportion of 
72 to 70. 
An article in the treaty between the Romans and 
Etolians, recorded by Polybins (3), whereby the lat- 
ter were to pay a certain number ofEuboic Talents, 
in filver of Attic finenefs, feems to favour this ine- 
quality of the two Talents : for, had they been equal, , 
there would have been no occalion to fpecify the 
quality of the filver by the ftandard of one country, 
and its weight by that of another. 
But, if the EuboicTalent was the ftandard u fed in 
the commerce between Greece and Afia (as it feems 
to have been)* both countries were concerned to keep 
it up to its juft weight ; which was a fufficient reafon 
for the preference given to it by the Romans, on 
account of its authenticity, wliether the Attic Talent 
was equal to it or not. 
And there is a circumftance very ftrongly in favour 
of their equality, which is, that it Philip changed the 
inoney-ftandard of his own country, with a view to 
the invafion of Afia, (as is highly probable), he cer- 
tainly adopted the ftandard ot the Daric, which was 
the Euboic Talent, by which the Kings of Perfia 
weighed their gold. But his money anfwers to the 
Attic Talent, as I have ftiewn above. 
Pollux no where mentions the Euboic Talent; 
and if he took his eftimate of the Babylonian Talent 
from H erodotus, he certainly thought the Euboic 
Talent was equal to the Attic. 
(2) Var. Hift. L. I. c. 22. 
(3} I'y'yi^* Excerpt. Legat. § 28. 
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