It is curious that the later value of the denarius gives the sestertium £7. 7s. 1½d., a sum in 7 as the other in 8.
In the article Aureus the writer says that the sovereign contains 113.12g. of fine gold. It really contains (neglecting the third place of decimals), neither more nor less than 113 grains. The result is that he gives the aureus as £1. 1s. 1d. and a little more than a half-penny, instead of as nearly as possible £1. 1s. 2d.
The following is an outline of my calculation:
Required the price of 60 grains of silver 2930ths fine, at 62d. per ounce standard. (1 ounce = 480 gr.)
x = 60 62480 4037 2930 (Standard being 3740ths fine). Reducing x = 31 × 293 × 37.
| 31 × 29 | = 302 − 1 = 899 |
| 3 × 37 | = 111 |
| x | = 8.099d. + value of early denarius, |
| 250 denarii | = 1 sestertium, |
| 240 pence | = £1. |
| ∴ value of sestertium | = £809.996 = £1012312 = £8.435, |
| = £8. 8s. 8d.4 or £8. 8s. 8½d. nearly. |
The later denarius is 52.5 gr. or 8.75 of the earlier, and the sestertium is in the same proportion.
V. 29 and 30. Max. Tyr. xi. (al. xxx.) §4: Τί γὰρ ϵἰ καὶ τὰ μόρια Cic. Phil. viii. §15: In corpore si quid ejusmodi est quod reliquo corpori noceat, uri secarique patimur; ut membrorum aliquod potius quam totum corpus intereat.
V. 37. Auson. Epist. xxv. 38 seq.: Sic fama renatum Pytha-
