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Lucas Pastus compared five antient foot-rules with 
the marbles; he feems not to have been a perfon of 
great accuracy; for though in one place he allows 
there was fome fmall difference between the Stati- 
lian foot and that on the monument of Coffutius (3), 
yet he every-where elfe fpeaks of them as equal, and 
has given but one figure for the meafure of both. 
His comparifons feem to have been made only with 
the latter, the meafure of which he had before fet 
up in the Capitol, as the true Roman foot (4). Three 
of thefe rules, which, he fays, were exactly equal to 
each other, were fhorter than the Coffutian foot by 
one feventh part of a Coffutian inch ; they mull then 
have been nearly py 3! London parts. Of the other 
two, one appears to have been 9)8> an d the other 
974, equal to that from Philanders column. He 
decides in favour of the three fhorteft, to which 
perhaps he was induced, partly by their agreement 
with each other, and partly by his opinion, that the 
Roman foot had been continually increafing ; whence 
it muft follow, that the fhorteft meafure of it was 
the moft antient. 
(3) Cum quo fane convenit modico diferimine hie Statilianus. 
Paetus de Menf. et Pond. lib. i. 
(4) Greaves, p. 209. fays, the Roman foot engraved by Paetus 
in the Capitol, agreed exa&ly with that on the monument of Cof- 
futius. Paetus therefore feems at that time to have acquiefced 
in the opinion of Portius, which, he fays, was generally received. 
(Leonardus Portius Vicentinus, vir fane dodfus, primus omnium 
noftrae aetatis qui de hac re feripferit, menfuram Colotiani pedis 
pro vera tradidit.— Quern juniores quoque fecuti funt.) But he 
changed his opinion when he wrote his book, which was after he 
had fet up the meafures in the Capitol, 
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