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lia nummofum, or Seftertiorum (In the mafculine 
gender) omitting centena millia, for the fake of 
brevity : they like wife called the fame fum Decies 
Seftertium (m the neuter gender), for Decies centies 
Seftertium,omittingCenties for the reafon above-men- 
tioned or limply Decies, omitting centena millia 
Seftertium, or centies Sellertium j and with the nu- 
meral adverbs, Decies, Vicles, Centies, Millies, and 
the like, either centena millia, or centies, was always 
underftood. ^ 
Thefe were their moft ufual forms of expreffion, 
though for Bina, Dena, Vicena Seftertia, they fre- 
qu^ently faid, Bina, Dena, Vicena millia num- 
mum (3) i and Cicero, in the paffage quoted in the 
margin, hath ufed Mille Seftertia, for Decies Sefter- 
tium. But Gronovius fays, that expreftion is not to 
be found elfewhere, and fuppofes it to be a falfe 
reading. 
If the Confular Denarius contained 60 Troy grains 
of fine filver, it was worth fomewhat more than 
Eightpence farthing and a half Sterling j and the 
of fixteen to the Denarius, a little more than a Half- 
peny. 
To reduce the ancient Sefterces of 2| AJfes, when 
the Denarius paffed for 16, to pounds Sterling,, mul- 
tiply the given number by 5454, and cut off fix' 
figures on the right hand for decimals. 
To reduce Nummi Seftertii, or quarters of 
the; Denarius, to pounds Sterling ; If the given fum 
be Confular money, multiply by 8727, and cut off 
(3) Suetonius in Julio, c. 3S. Cicero in Verrem, L. T., 
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