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receive a Solidus for 25 Pounds of copper (^Y w’hich 
fees the price of that metal at the 125th part of its 
weight in filver. But the fame Refeript in Juflinian’s 
Code (5) for XXV libris ceris, hath XX Uhrh aris. 
Both cannot be right, perhaps neither ; and the true 
reading may be XXIV libris ceris^ agreeable to thefe 
commerrtators. 
Eifenfchmid found Gonftantine’s copper money to 
weigh a quarter of a Roman Ounce (6) j therefore 
the Scholraft’s Follis, and the Gloffographer’s Num- 
mus contained four of them, as the ancient Nummus 
contained four AJjh ; but whereas the Denarius 
formerly paffed for four Nummi, it now pafTed for 
15, and the writers of this age fay it paffed for 60 
Affes (7). 
§ 4 * Of value of Gold in Greece arid Rome, 
Herodotus reckons the value of gold to filver in 
the proportion of 13 to 1(1). Plato, who wrote 
about fifty years after him, fays it was 12 times the 
value of filver (2) j and Xenophon, Plato’s contem- 
porary, relates, that Cyrus paid Silanus the Ambraciot 
3000 Darics for the ten talents he had promifed 
(4) pretia quae a provincialibus poftulantur, ita excioi 
volumus, ut pro XXV. libris ^ris, Solidus a polTeffore reddatur. 
v-/Oa. 1 heodol. de collatione asris. 
(5) Cod. Juftin. L. X. Tit, 29. 
( 6 ) Eifenfchmid, p. 141. 
(7) Hsro, Epiphanius, &c. 
( i) Herodotus, L. III. §95. 
(a) Plato in his Hipparchus^ 
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