[445] Varro ap. Non. p. 189 aut bovem aut ovem aut vervecem habet signum. Probably uerrem, not ueruecem, is the true reading, since Plutarch says that the coins were marked with an ox, a sheep or a swine (βοῦν ἐπεχάραττον ἢ πρόβατον ἢ ὗν). Popl. 11.
[446] Festus fragm. p. 347 Müller s.v. Sextantari asses.
[447] V. 173 Müller.
[448] Deux. Partie p. 41. “Le poids normal de l’as oncial est de 27 gr. 25, mais il alla en s’affaiblissant progressivement du commencement à la fin de la periode.”
[449] Ancient Laws of Ireland, Vol. I. p. 61. O’Curry, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. I. pp. 100 seq.
[450] Survey of the Coinage of Ireland, p. 3.
[451] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, p. 213 seqq.
[452] Folio 24 c.
[453] The bracketed words are interlined in a recent hand; but the final word shows that they were a portion of the text.
[454] Near Croghan Hill, in the north of King’s Co.