Literae de re nummaria; in opposition to the common opinion that the denarii Romani were never larger than seven in an ounce: with some remarks on Dr. ... miscellanies relating to the same subject

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1729 Excerpt: ...duodecimsolidos Turonicos valeturam. Ad hodiernam aris pretium proximehac accedunt, saltern in nostris regionibus j JVi? vero quis existimat, nimium fieri a nobis, adducamus iterum prima clajsis censum a Servio Tullio institutum, nempe centum millia Æris, quod efficit 60000 libras Turonicos nostro calculo, fed aliorum 4000 tantum. Hie exclama bunt limt nonaulli, tant am summam nulli civium Romanorum tune terns oris quadrare. At ferns omnino apparet, cum fc? multa famitia illustres atque potentes Roma tune reperirentur, aliaque subinde ex circumjeclis populis, imo (3 remotis, opibus valentes, illue migrarent, quod ex historic non grave erit monstrare. §uin potius abjecle nirms de potentiaRomana judicare censendi sunt, qui summas pidvati civis divitias non ultra 4000 libras Turonicas fe extendisfe asserunt. In the fore-going Words, this Author plainly discovers his Opinion fully to agree with my own Hypothesis, pleaded for in the foregoing Letters; yet as if he-durst not boldly own, or stand by it, for Fear of being laughed at by the Gronovii, and Harduini, he draws back a little, and fences himself with the following Words. Sed de his suum cuiUbet judicium liberum efio, nobis proposuisfe sufficiat. The English of this Latin is this, But of this let every Man's Judgment be free, it is sufficient for me to have proposed if. This Faint-hartednefs, orTimoroufhess, in Mr. Eifenschmid's owning and avouching his own Opinion, was I suppose the Reason why the late Bishop (A Bath and wells who commends him Pag. 18. as % very learned and curious Author, takes no Notice of it at all in his whole Book. And tho' I can never sufficiently admire Mr. Eifenfehmid's exact Judgment, and vast Knowledge in the Mathematicks, yet I cannot but think it an Instance of my Ki...