The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

by William Ridgeway

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[416] Xen. Anab. V. 6. 23; VII. 3. 10. Dem. Phorm. p. 914.

[417] Op. cit. p. 449.

[418] Corp. Inscr. Graec. 125, ἀγέτω ἡ μνᾶ ἡ ἐμπορικὴ Στεφανηφόρου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ πρὸς τὰ σταθμία τὰ ἐν τῷ ἀργυροκοπείῳ.

[419] Cf. Wharton, Etyma Latina, s.v. litra.

[420] Pollux, IX. 80.

[421] Cf. Shakespeare, I. Henry IV. II. 4, 590, in Falstaff’s tavern bill: “Item, Anchovies and sack, 6d. Item, bread, Ob. O monstrous! But one halfpenny worth of bread to such an intolerable deal of sack!”

[422] Head, op. cit. p. 105.

[423] The forms scripulum, scrupulum, scrupulus are all due to its simply being regarded in later times as a weight, and thus falsely identified with scrupulus, a small pebble.

[424] Book of Aicill, p. 335.