Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations (1727)
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735, Arbuthnot, Charles, d. 1731 · London : Printed for J. Tonson · leaf 41
it. Pondo is an indeclinable word, andwhen it is joined with numbers it fignifies Libra; when it is joindto other weights, it (lands for the fame things as 9a0^« or oAxjiin the Greek, fignifying the fame with Pondus or weight in general.The Romans made ufe of the word TaJentum or Taleiit in… … CHAP. Weights and Meafures^ &c. 25 CHAP. IV. Of the Grecian Coins. TH E Greeks made ufe of Drachma in reckoning Sums ei-ther in their own or Roynan affairs: as the Romans did ofJSummi Sefiertii: of wliich there are many Examples in allAuthors, efpecially in Plutarch. *A Drachm is the hundredth…
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