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make juft 900 fuch Denarii ^ which is Pliny’s 
number. 
That the Romans kept their accounts in copper 
Sefterces of 2| long after the filver Seflerce 
pafled for 4, appears not only from this paliage, but 
irom what Pliny lays of the pay of the Army, that 
notvvirhftanding the fiher Denarius palled for 16 
A[jes^ it was paid to the foldier for 10: which implies 
that the Qncedor’s accounts were kept in copper 
money, as all the public accounts probably were. 
Caefar is faid to have doubled the pay of the foldiers(5), 
and it appears from the account Tacitus gives of the 
mutiny of the legions in Pannonia (6), that at the 
acceffion of Tiberius to the empire, their pay was 
but ten Aff’es a day ; and they demanded a Denarius, 
not upon pretence that the legionary foldiers had ever 
received f6 much, but that ten Ajfes were not an 
equivalent for the dangers and hardfhips a foldier 
underwen^ Hence 5 Ajjes appear to have been their 
pay before Csefar raifed it ; but if this was their pay 
on the Quasftor’s book, they adfually (according to 
Pliny) received a Quinarius of 8 AJJ'es^ and Casfar only 
nominally doubled it ; which is more probable than 
that their pay at the time he raifed it, fliould be 
under two- pence three-farthings Englidi a day. 
Polybius tells us, that in his time the pay of a Roman 
foot foldier was two Oboles a day ; that of a centurion 
twice as much ; and that of a horfeman a Drachm 
(or Denarius) (7). This muft be underftood of what 
(5) Suetonius in Julio, c. 26. 
(6) Taciti Anna). L. I. § 17. 
(7) Polybius, L. VI. p. 484. of Gufaubon’s edition.. 
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