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Tables of Ancient Coins,

Josephus lib, 7. Antiquit. mentioning the fame passage, calls boththe Gold and Silver but 100,000 Talents , by which it seems hespoke according to some more modern calculation.

David reigned in Judæa after the Siege of Troy , as may be ga-ther’d from the Chronicles of E usebius ; so that it is no ways im-probable but Homer and he might use the seme numeral Talent ofGold.

k Both Pollux and Suidas inform us of a particular way ofreckoning by Talents in the more early times; viz. Tertium Semi-talentum signified 2. 4 Talents , quintum semitalentum signified 4 4 Ta-lent s 3 septimum semitalentum signified 64 Talents, and in shortwhatever number was join’d to Semitalentum signified the immedi-ate foregoing number of Talents , and half a Talent more.

It’s plain that the Latins admitted this way of reckoning some-times, from the word Sejlertius , which signifies tertius semis, orz 4 Asses-, and in the Law of the XII Tables pes tertius is putfor z feet and 4.

CHAP. V.

Of the Jewish Coins , in which their Weights are

likewise confidesd.

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