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we learn from a' pafTage in the Clouds of Arlftophanes, 
that, in his time, a running horfe coft 12 Minas, or 
above 46 pounds Sterling. 
Therefore, this feems to have been the 'ancient 
Greek Talent, before the art of ftamping money had 
introduced the greater Talents from Alia and Egypt. 
Herodotus tells us, the Lydians were reputed to 
be the firfl; that coined gold and filver money (3) j 
and the Talent, which the Greeks called Euboi'c, 
certainly came from Afia. Therefore, the Greeks 
learned the ufe of money from the Afiatics. 
The Romans took, their weights and their money,, 
either from the Dorians of Calabria, or- from Sicily s 
for their Libra, Uncia, and Nummus, were all Doric 
words, their Denarius was the Sicilian AszocXiJ^ov ; and 
Pollux tells us, from Ariftotle, that the Sicilian Num- 
mus was a quarter of the Attic Drachm (4) j and 
the Romans called a quarter of their Denarius by the 
fame name. 
The weights I have produced of the Greek and 
Roman coins, fo fully prove the ancient Attic Drachm 
to have been heavier than the Denarius, . that it may 
feem fuperfluous to quote any authorities in fupport 
of their evidence : nor Hiould I do it here, but in 
order, at the fame time, to anfwer an objedion 
which may be made to the weight I have afiigned to 
the Attic Drachm. 
In the treaty between the Romans and Antiochus; 
recorded by Polybius and Livy (5), the weight of 
(3) Herodot. L. I. § 94. ' ■ 
(4) See Pollux, L. IX. c. 6. § 80, 81. 87. & L. IV. 
c. 24. § 175. 
(5) Polybius, Excerp, Leg, § 35. Livy, L. XXXVIIL 
c. 38. 
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