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Tables of Ancient Coins ,

Great debts, as they are the effect of great credit, are an indi-cation too of great riches, some instances of which are as fol-low.

x Curio is recorded for contracting a debt to the value of Sex~centies Sejlertium ; 484375 /.

y Apcius after having spent in his Kitchen millies H.S. 807171/.13 s. 4 d. and fquander’d immense Grants and Pensions, beingforced at last to look into his Accounts for the first time, foundhe had a small remain of Centies H.S. 80717/. 3 s. 4 d. whichthinking too little to afford the necessaries of life, he poisoned him-self for soar of starving.

z Ttgellius a Singer could spend in five days Decks Hi S. 8071/.i 8 s. 4 d.

a One Munna is chastised by Martial for spending in less thana year bis decies ; 16145 1. 1 6 s. 8 d.

b Macrobius speaks of a Roman Knight who could run in debthis decies 16145/. 16/. 8 d.

According to a Latin Translation of As pan , Cæsar ’s debt be-fore he had been in any Office abroad, was 1.018117/. 3 s. 4 d.

c But according to a various Reading in a Greek Manuseriptof the fame Author, it was 1500 Myriads ; 807 171 /. 13 s. 4 d.

Cæsar himself owns, he wanted this Sum to be worth nothing;he had contracted this debt before he had any foreign Command.-Plutarch faith, that before he had been in any publick Office athome, he owed 1300 Talents ; 151875 /.

d Crajsus was his Surety for 830 Talents ; 160812./. so s.e Milo contracted debts to the sum of Seftingenties H. S.5.6 5 1 o 4 L 3 s. 4 d.

_ * Curio filius conflaverat Æris alien! Sestcr-tinm scxcenties. Val. Max. lib. 9. y Ccmseltertium millies in Culinam congeffisset,Principum ingens Capitolii vectigal (inguliscommeffationibus hausisset, Ære alieno oppres-sus, rationessiias tune primum coactus inipexit,superfuturum tibi sestertium centies computavif,& veluti in ultima fame victurus, si in sestertiocenties vixiffet, veneno vitam finivit

r decies centena dedisles

* Antony

Huic parco panels contents, quinque diebusNil erat in locusts. Horat.

a Bisque tuum decies non toto- tabuit anno,Dicmihi, non est hoc Munnaperire cito.b Macrobius lib. 2. Saturn. c Si^i-

hiav y 'inv}u.K.(i<t'iw puetaJm, sub'intelligiturd Plutarch in Cæsarc,

e Milonem sestertium septingenties æris alienidebuisse, inter prodigia animi human! duco.Plin. 16. cap. ijr.