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The learned Budaus, and others after him, have 
called this fum of too Denarii, Libra centenariay 
and Libra nummaria \ though heconfeffes he hatf never 
found either the word Libra or Pondo ufed to fignify 
a fum of money ; but 'always, when applied to gold 
or fiiver, a weight of Plate or Bullion ^ and how ihe 
Libra, which certainly weighed but 84 Denarii when 
Livy wrote, fhpuld be valued at too, is a paradox I 
caniiot account for.. 
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