409. The Hebrew term @@@. Lagarde's use of this term again in the next sentence is abundantly justified by the fragments of Epiphanius in his Symmicta I 214, first line 15, and 217, first line 10. The margins of A and B are contradictory.
410. Cf. Hultsch, op. cit. pp. 293-97.
411. Both A and B have marginal Greek spellings in dia-, and in the Syriac this a is represented in every case save one by @. I have followed the Lexicon of Sophocles, to avoid confusion with diachryson, "interwoven with gold."
412. So the margin of B. This is the Roman miliarensis, named for its value, the one-thousandth of a pound of gold; cf. A. R. Burns, Money and Monetary Policy in Early Times (London, 1927) p. 242, n. 5.
413. Lit.; but the term really means the daily wage of the soldier.
414. Jer. 6:30; cf. LXX and Syro-Hexaplaric.
415. Vocalized according to the Greek marginal glosses; not in the lexicons. Let students of Greek antiquities take notice of these terms.
416. Speaking in Roman terms, Burns (op. cit. p. 439) says: "The purse of silver is estimated at 125 miliarenses weighing a little under two pounds, and was worth 9 solidi or one-eighth of a pound of gold." Cf. Hultsch, op. cit. pp. 340-48.
417. The Greek of Petavius reads "208." Lagarde says the Breslau ms. reads "220." Cf. his Symmicta I 213, 217 f., 222, 224; also Hultsch, Metroloyicorum scriptorum reliquiae I 144 n.; also Burns, op. cit. p. 439.
418. The copper denarius became so common that the term δηναρισμον was employed to mean copper coinage. Cf. Dindorf's ed. of Epiphanius, IV 138.
419. Apparently a small silver coin (follis) worth 2 lepta.
420. If the writing of A, with a double @, be correct, then the reference is to what people "say" is the number. .
421. II Kings 5:21-23 in LXX.
422. Lit., "accepted."
423. Lit., "swallows."
424. I.e., the silver denarius, just as the copper lepton was the copper denarius.
425. I.e., a term in common use for expressing value but never an actual coin, in this respect like the English "mill." That the follis is said in one place to equal 125 pieces of silver, in another place 250, and is even assigned other values in the Greek text, is in exact accord with current usage in Palestine up until the recent World War. The mejidi was officially worth 19 piasters in the Turkish telegraph offices, but in current usage was worth 23 piasters in Jerusalem, 24 in Damascus, 26 in Jaffa, and 46 in Gaza. Cf. Baedeker, Palestine and Syria (Leipzig, 1912) p. xxiii and the frontispiece.
426. The word as here spelled means lit. "baskets"; it is no doubt the @@, which has been transliterated into Greek and then back into Syriac and has thus become obscured.
427. Gen. 23:16 in LXX.
428. Margin: "Concerning the said."
429. Plural of folis, a Greek term here confused with follis, which latter was applied by the Romans to a small coin as well as to a leathern money bag.
430. An interpretation of the term folides.
431. B has 6,400 in text, and A adds 400 in the margin; but such a calculation does not fit Epiphanius' terms.
432. Plural in B. A repeats the title in the margin; on left margin: "Concerning the mares, the kupros, and the choinix. "
433. Cf. Hultsch, Gr. und röm. Metrologie, pp. 480, 574 f., 586.