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the Euboic talent Is fet at 80 Roman Pounds. The 
Talent is not, indeed, called Euboic, in the Treaty, 
which was fuperfluous when its weight was fpeci- 
fied ; but both hiftorians, in relating the, terms offered 
by Scipio to Antiochus, on which this treaty w'as 
founded, call it fo(6). Therefore in Livy’s recital 
of the treaty, for yirgenti probi XII milUa Attica ta~ 
lenta, we fhould read, with Gronovius, Argmti probi 
Attici XII millia talenta. 
In § II of this difcourfe, I have endeavoured to 
prove that the Euboic Talent was equal to the Attic j 
and if fo, it contained 6000 Attic Drachms j but 80 
Roman pounds contained 6720 Denarii; therefore, 
according to this treaty, the weight of the Attic 
Drachm muff be to that of the Denarius, as 6720 
6000, 
And, even if the Euboic Talent was heavier than 
the Attic, in the proportion of 72 to 70, the Attic 
Drachm would ffill be heavier than the Denarius ; for 
in that cafe, the Euboic talent fhould contain 6171 
Attic Drachms, and the two coins would be in the 
proportion of 6720 to 6171. 
But an anonymous Greek fragment publiffied by 
Montfaucon (7), makes 100 Attic Drachms equal to 
1 1 2 Denarii; which proportion of the two coins being 
the fame with that of 6000 to 6720, feems to have 
been taken from this treaty ; and if it was, that 
^ writer certainly thought die Talent therein mentioned, 
equal to the Attic* 
t6) Polyb. Exc. Leg. § 24. Livy, L. XXXVII. c. 45. 
(7) Anale6ta Gr«ca, p. 393. Paris, 1688, in Quarto. 
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