. A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced . pISCOVRSE OF THE ROMANE FOOTi AND T> E H^A %^I VSi [•From whence, as from two principles^r T H E ME A S V R E S, ANDWEIGHTS, ufid by the Ancients^ may be deduced» ^^lOHN Greaves, Profeffor of Afirommjin the Vniverftty of Oxford* LOUDON^ |jPrinted by M:FAoxWillim Lecy and are to befoldathis fliop at the fignofthe Turks head .in Fket-ftrfet» 1^47.^ Et fiatui ilUfm totim Orbis erit, Budeliiisdemonetis. To his truly noble, Sc learncdfriend,foh/f S
. A discourse of the Roman foot, and Denarius: from whence, as from two principles, the measures, and weights, used by the ancients, may be deduced . pISCOVRSE OF THE ROMANE FOOTi AND T> E H^A %^I VSi [•From whence, as from two principles^r T H E ME A S V R E S, ANDWEIGHTS, ufid by the Ancients^ may be deduced» ^^lOHN Greaves, Profeffor of Afirommjin the Vniverftty of Oxford* LOUDON^ |jPrinted by M:FAoxWillim Lecy and are to befoldathis fliop at the fignofthe Turks head .in Fket-ftrfet» 1^47.^ Et fiatui ilUfm totim Orbis erit, Budeliiisdemonetis. To his truly noble, Sc learncdfriend,foh/f Selden Efquire, BurgefTe of theUnivcrficy of Oxford in the Honoura-ble Houfe of Commons,SIR, ^Hat 1 Jhotildfrefent Toft^rt^bo havefo honourablj deferved of Antl-c^ttitjy andoj four Countrj^and^ifI may add mine o^n lA^ligationSyinparticular of me, withfo fma/i aretribution^as a Romane foor,(^Denarius, may feem more proportionable to mine a-bilitiesy then to the eminency of Tour place y andXforth. But Ton ^hoy to the honour of Tour profef-fion^ have joined the wifdome of the Ancients, andjufllj have merited this elogy, -Anglorum gloria gentis. Seldenus, An elogy long jince given Tou by a man, rpho isdefervedly efteerned7n»^av acTuf/of a>Aa,^vkdvtoi rnr/jji iny\cto^ot\\s (the former eqnallto that o/Samos:the later mif-rendredby Pliny, (^ Solinu midorus, and Scrabo : the T»f 0A7i\tKoiy y^ $/xs- • U Tttp^i^^^Hero : the pcsPcolemaicus, andDiu- JCL7A.;) fdiscourseofroman00grea
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