(1) The solidus is of two kinds; one has two tremisses, which is the one-year-old bullock, or a sheep with lamb. (2) Alter solidus tres tremisses id est, bos 16 mensium. (2) The other solidus, three tremisses: that is, the ox of sixteen months. (3) Majori solido aliæ compositiones, minori homicidia componuntur. (3) Other compositions are compounded for with the greater solidus, homicide with the lesser one. This was originally the final clause. But the following additions were afterwards made. In the Corvey Code:-- Quadrinis bos duo solidi. Duo boves quibus arari potest 5 solidi. Vacca cum vitulo solidi duo et semis. Vitulus anniculus sol. 1. Ovis cum agno et anniculus agnus, si super adjunctus, sol. 1. The four-year-old ox, two solidi. Two oxen by which one can plough five solidi. Cow, with calf, two-and-a-half solidi. Year-old calf, one solidus. Sheep with lamb, if a year-old lamb be added, one solidus. And in the Codex Lindenbrogius:[166]-- Westfalaiorum et Angrariorum et Ostfalaiorum solidus est secales sceffila 30, ordei 40, avenæ 60; apud utrosque: duo sicle mellis solidus; quadrimus bos duo solidi: duo boves quibus arari potest quinque sol., bos bonus tres solidi; vacca cum vitulo solidi duo et semis. The solidus of the Westfali and Angrarii and Ostfali is 30 sceffila of rye, 40 of barley, 60 of oats; with both: two siclæ of honey a solidus; four-year-old ox two solidi; two oxen, with which one can plough, five solidi; good ox, three solidi; cow with calf, two-and-a-half solidi. According to the original final clause, if it had been followed in the text of the Lex Saxonum the wergelds ought to have been stated in gold solidi of two tremisses, representing the bullock, or a sheep with her lamb. And the lesser penalties for wounds, &c., should have been stated in solidi of three tremisses, representing the ox of 16 months. These values in gold tremisses would then have been consistent with that of the full-grown four-year-old ox as stated in Tit. VI. at two solidi--_i.e._ the normal value of the ox before the change in the currency. But, as it is, the text is not consistent throughout. Returning to the statement of the wergelds: Nobilis 1440 solidi. Litus 120 ” we are struck at once with the excessive amount of that of the nobilis. But if the solidi were of two tremisses, as they should have been, then, translated into solidi of three tremisses, the amounts would stand thus:-- Nobilis 960 solidi, or 1440 bullocks. Litus 80 ” or 120 ” These amounts appear to be still far too large; whether regarded in cattle or in gold. [Sidenote: The statement of wergelds seems to be in silver solidi.]