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3 grammata. An olke is 3 grammata. The holy shekel, which is 12 grammata. A stater is 12 grammata. A pholis and a ballantion [variant: Follis] is 2 and a half argyroi, 250 denarii, 12 and a half litras. I found the holy shekel in Numbers [18, 16] thus: "You shall redeem, it says, the firstborn for five shekels according to the holy shekel, which is twenty obols." An oxybaphon holds 8 xestai. A cheme holds 48 xestai. A kochliarion holds 72 xestai. It shows the shekel to be of four obols. The obol is 3 grammata. Therefore, the holy shekel is 12 grammata, and the royal one is 10 grammata. The denarius was sixty assaria. But the argyrous, denarii. The argyrous was minted as a coin from the beginning, and it came from the Assyrians. But Abraham, he says [perhaps, they say], brought this type into the land of Canaan. The drachma which has 3 grammata. They weighed the hair of Absalom with this shekel from time to time when he cut his head, 125 shekels. It is, therefore, thirty onkiai and 133 one, 10 grammata; by the royal shekel it becomes 1 litra, 3 grammata. The holy shekel is 4 obols, 10 grammata; but the obol is 3 grammata. But they once minted the weight in silver pieces; was it not made of silver? but of iron; therefore an obol; this it was. Mna instead of maneh; for in Hebrew silver is called maneh; but the Italic mna is forty; it is a stater [variant: is of forty staters], that is, 20 onkiai, 1 litra 8 onkiai.

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γράμματα γʹ. Ὁλκὴ ἄγει γράμματα γʹ. Ὁ σίκλος ὁ ἅγιος, ὅ ἐστι γράμματα ιβʹ. Στατὴρ ἄγει γράμματα ιβʹ. Φόλις καὶ βαλλάντιον [γρ. Φόλλις] ἄγει ἀργύρους βʹ καὶ ἥμισυν, δηνάρια σνʹ, λίτρας ιβʹ καὶ ἡμίσειαν. Ηὗρον τὸν σίκλον τὸν ἅγιον ἐν τοῖς Ἀριθμοῖς [ιηʹ, 16] οὕτως: «Λυτρώσει, φησί, τὸ πρωτότοκον πέντε σίκλων κατὰ τὸν σίκλον τὸν ἅγιον, εἴκοσι ὀβολοί εἰσιν». Ὀξύβαφον ἔχει ξέστας ηʹ. Χήμη ἔχει ξέστας μηʹ. Κοχλιάριον ἔχει ξέστας οβʹ. ∆εικνύει τὸν σίκλον τεσσάρων ὀβολῶν. Ὁ ὀβολὸς ἄγει γράμματα γʹ. Ἔστιν οὖν ὁ σίκλος ὁ ἅγιος γραμμάτων ιβʹ, καὶ ὁ βασιλικὸς γραμμάτων ʹ. Τὸ δηνάριον ἑξήκοντα ἀσσαρίων ὑπῆρχεν. Ὁ δὲ ἀργυροῦς δηνάρια. Ἀργυροῦς δὲ ἐτυπώθη ἀπ' ἀρχῆς νόμισμα, ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων ἐφοίτησεν. Ἁβραὰμ δὲ εἰς γῆν Χαναάν, φησι [ἴσ. φασι], τὸν τύπον τοῦτον ἐνήνοχεν. ∆ραχμὴ ἡ ἔχουσα γράμματα γʹ. Τὴν τρίχα τοῦ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ σίκλῳ ἐστάθμιζον κατὰ καιρὸν ὅταν ἐκείρετο τὴν κεφαλήν, σίκλους ρκεʹ. Ἔστιν οὖν ὀγκίαι τριάκοντα καὶ 133 μία, γράμματα ʹ· τῷ σίκλῳ τῷ βασιλικῷ γίνονται λίτρα αʹ γράμματα γʹ. Ὁ σίκλος ὁ ἅγιός ἐστιν ὀβολῶν δʹ, γραμμάτων ιʹ· ὁ δὲ ὀβολὸς ἄγει γράμματα γʹ. Τὸν σταθμὸν δὲ ἐν ἀργυρίοις ποτὲ ἐτυποῦντο· οὐκ ἐξ ἀργύρου δὲ ἦν; πεποιημένος, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ σιδήρου· ὀβολὸς οὖν· τοῦτο ἦν. Μνᾶ ἀντὶ τοῦ μάνη· τὸ μὲν γὰρ τῇ ἑβραΐδι μάνη ὁ ἄργυρος καλεῖται· ἡ δὲ μνᾶ ἡ ἰταλικὴ τεσσαράκοντα· στατήρ ἐστι [γρ. τεσσαράκοντα στατήρων ἐστί], τουτέστι ὀγκιῶν κʹ, λίτρας αʹ ὀγκιῶν ηʹ.