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But the numbers in the account Herodotus hath 
given of the revenue of Darius, as they now ftand,, 
difagree with each other, and muft be faulty in more 
places than one ; and as probably in his value of the 
Babylonian Talent as elfewhere. 
He tells us, the King of Perfia weighed his filver by 
the Babylonian Talent j therefore, that muft have 
been reckoned the filver Talent of the empire, and was 
probably the ftandard of their filver coin, 
Xenophon, in his account of the expedition of Cyrus, 
fays, the Afiatic Siglus was worth yl Attic Oboles 
j(4). This coin feems to have been the Drachm of 
the Babylonian Talent; and if that Talent weighed 72 
Attic Minas, the Siglus was really worth but 74. 
oboles ; but the place Xenophon here fpeaks of was 
near Babylon, where the Attic money was unknown 
and confequently undervalued in common currency, 
This however (hews, that, if the Babylonian Talent 
■was the ftandard for the filver coinage in Perfia, its 
weight probably exceeded 70 Attic Minas. 
The lame author tells us, that Cyrus paid Silanus 
the Ambraciot 3000 Darics for ten Talents. There- 
fore, the Talent of filver was worth 300 Darics. And 
if 3000 Darics were coined out of the Euboi'c Talent 
of gold, 300 weighed fix Euboic Minas: and fup- 
pofing the Babylonian Talent to weigh 72 fuch Minas, 
the price of gold, at that time, was twelve times its 
weight in filver, as Plato, who was Xenophon’s con- 
temporary, tells us it was (5). 
By the former of thefe paffages, it appears proba- 
ble that the Babylonian Talent weighed above 70 
(4) Xenoph. Expcd. L. I. (5) Plato, in his Hipparchus. ' 
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