ROMAN MEASURES OF CAPACITY FOR THINGS DRY, REDUCED TO ENGLISH CORN MEASURE.
pecks.gals.pts.sol.
in.		dec.
Ligula001⁄48001
  4Cyathus001⁄12004
  6  1½Acetabulum00⅛006
 24  6  4Hemina00½024
 48 12  8 2Sextarius001048
384 96 6416 8Semimodius010384
76819212832162Modius100768
THE MOST ANCIENT GRECIAN WEIGHTS, REDUCED TO ENGLISH TROY WEIGHT.
lb.oz.dwt.gr.dec.
Drachma 006222⁄49
 100Mina 110444⁄49
600060Talentum65012543⁄49
LESS ANCIENT GRECIAN AND ROMAN WEIGHTS, REDUCED TO ENGLISH TROY WEIGHT.
lb.oz.dwt.gr.dec.
Lentes0 0 0 085⁄112
   4Siliquæ0 0 0 31⁄28
  12   3Obolus0 0 0 93⁄28
  24   6  2Scriptulum0 0 0183⁄14
  72  18  6  3Drachma0 0 2 69⁄14
  96  24  8  4 1⅓Sextula0 0 3 06⁄7
 144  36 12  6 2 1½Sicilius0 0 4132⁄7
 192  48 16  8 2⅔ 2 1⅓Duella0 0 6 15⁄7
 576 144 48 24 8 6 4 3Unica0 018 51⁄7
691217285762889672483612Libra01018135⁄7

N.B. The Roman ounce is the English avoirdupois ounce, which was anciently divided into seven denarii, and eight drachmæ, and as they reckoned the denarius equal to an Attic drachma, the Attic weights were one-eighth heavier than the correspondent weights among the Romans.

The Greeks divided their obolus into chalci and smaller proportions; some into six chalci, and every chalcus into seven smaller parts; and others divided into eight chalci, and each chalcus into eight parts.

THE GREATER WEIGHTS REDUCED TO ENGLISH TROY WEIGHT.
lb.oz.dwt.gr.
Libra 01018135⁄7
 11⁄24Mina Attica communis 011 7162⁄7
  ⅓ 17⁄25Mina Attica media 1 211102⁄7
62½6046⅞Talentum
Atticum
commune		5611 0171⁄7

N.B. There was also another Attic talent which consisted of 80, or, according to some, of 100 minæ. It must, however, be remembered, that every mina contains 100 drachmæ, and every talent 60 minæ. The talents differ according to the different standard of their minæ and drachmæ, as the following table indicates:—