[369] In his "Metrological Studies" Böckh fixed the ratio of the Euboean to the Babylonian talent as 5:6. Since that time the discovery of numerous gold and silver Persian coins and of weights at Babylon and Nineveh, and the lion of Abydus with its Aramaean stamp, have provided the means for fixing the gold talent of Darius at 25,245 kilogrammes, and his silver talent (the Babylonian talent) at 33,660 kilogrammes; Brandis, "Münzwesen," s. 54, 63, 64, 69. Hence Brandis takes Mommsen's view, that in Herod. 3, 89, 95, we must read 78 instead of 70 Euboean talents; the Euboean talent in Attica was a little heavier than the light Babylonian talent (the gold talent of Darius), and in the calculation 7600 Babylonian talents must be made equal to 9880 Euboean talents, which enables us to preserve the total sum given by Herodotus—14,560 talents.
[370] Brandis, "Münzwesen," s. 225, 231, 239, 241.
[371] Herod. 3, 96; Strabo, p. 735.
[372] Herod. 3, 89; Xenoph. "Hellen." 3, 4, 25.
[373] Herod. 6, 42.
[374] Herod. 1, 192; Böckh, "Staatshaush." 12, 130.
[375] Herod. 3, 117; 2, 149.
[376] Herod. 1, 192.
[377] Strabo, p. 525.
[378] Xenoph. "Anab." 4, 5, 34 ff.