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and, on the reverfe, an Eagle landing on a Thunder- 
bolt. The latter coins of this fcrupular ftandard 
are like the Denarii of the age in which they were 
flruck ; as was the gold of the different ftandards that 
fucceeded it. 
The Romans did not ufe the Denarius for a weight, 
as the Greeks did their Drachm ; till the Greek phy- 
ficans coming to Rome, and finding the two coins 
nearly equal, prefcribed by it, as they had been ac- 
cuftomed to do by the Drachm in their own country. 
Neither did the Roman Pound depend on the weight 
of the Denarius, as the Greek Mina did on that of 
the Drachm ; but the weight of the Denarius depend- 
ed on the Pound. 
The antient Roman Pound was divided into iz 
Ounces, and the Ounce into 24 fcruples (5). And 
we learn from Celfus and Pliny, that 84 Denarii were 
coined out of the Pound of filver(6)j therefore, if 
we knew the true vveight of the Roman Pound, wc 
Ihould thence know that of the Denarius. 
There are many antient Roman weights now re- 
maining, from under an Ounce to too Pounds j 
Ibme of them with infcriptions have the appearance of 
Ifandards. 
Lucas Paetus, from an antient weight of 10 Pounds, 
another of 4 pounds, and a third of i pound, infcribed 
EX. AVC.D.CAS. in letters of filver, befides three 
fmaller of 3, 6, and 9 ounces, all fix pcrfed and 
(5) Varro de Re Ruftlca, L. I. c. lO. Collumella, L. V. c. i. 
and Volufius Mcecianus. 
T Medicina, L. V. c. 17. Pliny, Nat. HiR. 
L. aXaIII. c. 9. 
(7) See Thef. Antiq. Roman. Vol. XI. col. 1661. 
agreeing 
