The _as_ of copper = 1/10 deniers = 5 centimes. The _sestertius_ = 0.975 grammes = 19 centimes. The _denarius_ = 3.898 grammes = 75 centimes. The _great sestertius_ = 100,000 sestertii = 19,000 francs [£760]. The Attic or Euboic _talent_, of 26 kilogrammes, 196 grammes = 5,821 francs [£232 16s.]. The _mina_, of 436 grammes = 97 francs. The _drachma_, of 4.37 grammes = 97 centimes. The _obolus_, of 0.73 grammes = 16 centimes. The Æginetic talent was equivalent to 8,500 Attic drachmas (37 kilogrammes, 2 gr.) = 8,270 francs [£330 16s.]. The Babylonic silver talent is of 33 kilogrammes, 42 = 7,426 francs [£297]. (See, for details, Mommsen, _Römisches Münzwesen_, pp. 24-26, 55. Hultsch, _Griechische und Römische Metrologie_, pp. 135-137.) [247] Nearly 700,000 francs [£28,000]. (Athenæus, XII. lviii. 509, ed. Schweighæuser.) [248] Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15. [249] Scylax of Caryanda, _Periplus_, p. 51 _et seq._, ed. Hudson. [250] See the work of Heeren, _Ideen über die Politik, den Verkehr, und den Handel der vornehmsten Völker der alten Welt_, Part I., Vol. II., secs. v. and vi., p. 163 _et seq._, 188 _et seq._ 3rd edit. [251] Athenæus informs us that Polemon had composed an entire treatise on the mantles of the divinities of Carthage. (XII. lviii. 541.) [252] Herodotus, VII. 145.--Polybius, I. 67.--Titus Livius, XXVIII. 41. [253] Reckoning, after Titus Livius, her troops at the time of the second Punic War, we find a force of 291,000 foot and 9,500 horse. (Titus Livius, Books XXI. to XXIX.) [254] Carthage, under certain circumstances, could make daily a hundred and forty shields, three hundred swords, five hundred lances, and a thousand darts for catapults. (Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15.) [255] Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15. [256] In 513, 3,200 Euboic talents (18,627,200 francs [£745,088]); in 516, 1,200 talents (6,985,200 francs [£279,408]); in 552, 10,000 talents (58,210,000 francs [£2,328,400]). Scipio, the first Africanus, brought, besides this, 123,000 pounds weight of gold from this town. (Polybius, I. 62, 63, 88; XV. 18.--Titus Livius, XXX. 37, 45.) [257] Aristotle, _Politics_, VII. iii. § 5.--Polybius, I. 72. [258] Diodorus Siculus, XX. 17. [259] Pliny, _Natural History_, V. iii. 24. [260] Scylax of Caryanda, _Periplus_, p. 49. edit. Hudson. [261] Polybius, XII. 3. [262] Titus Livius, XXXIV. 62. [263] 58,200 francs (£2,328). (Titus Livius, XXII. 31.) [264] Sallust, _Jugurtha_, xix. [265] Pliny, citing this fact, throws doubt upon it. (_Natural History_, V. i. 8.)--See the _Periplus_ of Hanno, in the collection of the minor Greek geographers. [266] Strabo, III. v. § 3. [267] Strabo, III. ii. § 1. [268] Pliny, _Natural History_, III. iii. 30.--Strabo, III. ii. § 8. [269] Strabo, III. ii. § 3.--Pliny, III. i. 3; XXXIII. vii. 40. [270] Above 25,000 francs [£1,000]. (Strabo, III. ii. § 10.)