434. Evidently an error for mares; but kupros occurs in both Syriac mss. and also in the fragmentary Greek given by Lagarde, Symmicla I 218 and II 182. So also Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae I 264, line 15, and 269, line 23. But cf. our § 3, where the meaning is clear.
435. ἐτυμολογία is evidently the Greek that lies behind the Syriac @@@ .
436. Lit., "we do not know much."
437. Someone has added on the margin "6,912," and this seems to have provoked the further note: "Rather the barleycorns are doubled, for there it was one-fourth of a carat according to us."
438. Margin: "Concerning the gram, the carat, the barleycorn, and the ounce."
439. Lit., "falls."
440. Margin: "Concerning the shekel, the stater, the lepta, and the obolus."
441. Lit., "it causes to pass over."
442. Is Epiphanius trying to suggest that the root idea in "stater" is akin to the Greek ἵστημι , "to stand"?
443. A reproduction of the Greek transliteration of "shekel"; cf. margin.
444. Corresponding to the Aramaic meaning of the root.
445. The Syriac root @@@ is practically equivalent to the Hebrew
446. An attempt to reproduce an approximation of the original idea of Epiphanius; our Syriac mss. are not altogether consistent, but our e corresponds generally to @@ and our o to @.
447. Derived from the Greek word for "table"; cf. our term "bankers," from a Middle English root akin to our "bench."
448. Matt. 21:12 ff., with parallels in the other three Gospels.
449. I.e., "coinage" ( νόμισμα ) is derived from the verb νομίζω , which Lagarde takes to be the word lying back of the Syriac.
450. See § 45. This largest silver (coin) was only a term, not an actual coin in use.
451. Or perhaps: "It is from the Greek usage."
452. Lit., "scraped down." The Syriac verb doubtless represents the Greek ζέω or ζύω , and from this root Epiphanius would derive the term xestes.
453. Low Latin may have had some such term as sexter for "six times," after the analogy of ter and quater.
454. Lit., "the xestes much doubled."
455. I.e., the Latin sextum, "the sixth."
456. The same measure as the congius, but also meaning a gift of a congius distributed among the people, hence also in a more general sense a largess in money of undefined amount. Cf. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae II 117.
457. This corresponds to the second Greek term of this pair, συνεστραμμένον ; and the second Syriac term corresponds to the first of the Greek, συνημμένον .
458. B margin, κονγε, evidently a conflation of the two Latin verbs cogo and congero.