23. Petavius (see the edition of Epiphanius by Dindorf or that by Migne) thinks δ́ δραχμάς was originally written and that a scribe copied the numeral mark as ι and thereupon further modified his text, thus giving us an inaccurate statement and a most unusual term, διδραγμα instead of δέδραχμον .
24. According to Lagarde, both c and r read σιμου .
25. Both Petavius and Hultsch (op. cit. I 265) insist that h ("eighth") must be supplied to make sense out of this sentence. Lagarde, op. cit. I 216, gives, indeed, ογδοον .
26. Lagarde, op. cit. I 216, adds φημι , corresponding to the Syriac @ in § 48, and also uses the finite verb ἐστάθμιζον rather than a participle.
27. Again corrupt. Cf. § 48 and Lagarde, loc.cit.
28. Hultsch, op. cit. I 266, emends to this reading, which is found in Lagarde, op. cit. I 217.
29. This spelling is cited by Hultsch, op. cit. I 266.
30. The Lexicon of Sophocles identifies this ἄργυρον with the miliarision, the equivalent of the denarius.
31. Hultsch, op. cit. I 267, and Lagarde, op. cit. I 217, give the true reading, βαλάντιον , "bag" or "purse"; cf. § 53.
32. Lagarde says that r reads 220 denarii. The Syriac says 2 1/2 silver (minas) and 250 denarii; cf. § 53.
33. Where the word mares might be expected; but kupros is the only reading I have been able to find in either Greek or Syriac. Cf. p. 63, n. 448.
34. "Which" apparently refers to the kupros, but should refer to a single modius.
35. Lagarde, op. cit. I 218, and Hultsch, op. cit. I 270, supply the right number, 2 xestai.
36. One of the meanings of congiarium is a gift bestowed upon the populace on some festival occasion.
APPENDIX IV
SUMMARY OF THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Superior figures indicate the section in which any particular equation is found.
MEASURES OF CAPACITY
kor......................30 modiilethekh ...................15 modii ............great homerbath.....................50 xestai ............little homer mnasis ..................10 modiimodius .... 17 xestai in Cyprus.......22 xestai usually.... 24 xestai
in Pontus medimnos .... 5 modii in Constantia.... 4 1/2 modii in Paphos and Sicilyseah*.......1 1/4 modii cab........1/4 or 1/5 or 1/6 modiuschoinix ... 1/8 (Cyprian) modius ... 2 xestai .... hyfi .... 2 handfulsardeb (dry measure)......... metretes (liquid measure) metretes ......72 xestai usually......104 xestai of wine in Cyprus.....also measured as 88 xestai .....82 xestai .....and 96 xestai "three measures".....little omer.......6 xestai †
omer.................1/10 ardeb........7 1/5 xestainevel ........150 xestai ......3 liquid seahs..... amphora or foreus liquid seah.........50 xestaikollathon ..........1/2 liquid seah...........25 xestai
shatifta ..... alabastron ...... 1/2 xestes ........ libra of oilgreat kapsakes. .. .12 xestai .. . .spondeion .....1/4 liquid seah.... qvuna (?) |143
small kapsakes = 4 xestai... .stamnos ....... qvurta (?) kotyle .............1/2 xesteskyathos ............1/6 or 1/3 xestestryblion ...........1/2 xestes
xestes .....2 librae of oil in Alexandria........8 librae in Pontus........22 ounces in Italy.......20 ounces in Nicomedia........24 ounces in the xestes castrensis ....... sextarius
aporryma ......1/2 saites ............11 xestai true saites ........22 xestai Nicaean saites .....8 or 10 xestai shafitha ...... sapation ......22 xestai in Ashkelon.......18 xestai in Azotus.........14 xestai in Gazagreat hin...........18 xestai sacred hin...........9 xestai complete chus .....8 xestai .....1/9 metretes ........1/6 samios sacred chus .......6 xestai .....1/12 metretes mares ........2 pots in Pontus.......20 Alexandrian xestai pot (of the Pontians).......10 xestai kupros .....2 modii .......10 choinikes ........20 xestai (dry measure) congiarium .........6 xestai. little xestes ........ sexton