. 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 . prefle of atortoife ontheir mony , whence that witty Greek proverbfUlFolLLsl ^^^^ ^s originall. d^ir^v, ;^ raiv Qot^icu/vt^C6, ^f^uTj -^zKavcu. The mony 3,iTenedos had on th^ one lide a double hatchet, and on the otherfide two heads, one of a man, and another ofa woman,arifing from the fame ftemme, or neck,^ in memory of a Law made by the King of that Mcraclides j^^^j^j (whom * Heraclides names Tecn^jplacingj_,/ him ancienter tiien the Troja
. 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 . prefle of atortoife ontheir mony , whence that witty Greek proverbfUlFolLLsl ^^^^ ^s originall. d^ir^v, ;^ raiv Qot^icu/vt^C6, ^f^uTj -^zKavcu. The mony 3,iTenedos had on th^ one lide a double hatchet, and on the otherfide two heads, one of a man, and another ofa woman,arifing from the fame ftemme, or neck,^ in memory of a Law made by the King of that Mcraclides j^^^j^j (whom * Heraclides names Tecn^jplacingj_,/ him ancienter tiien the Trojan war),that a man, and a woman, taken in adultery lhould havetheir heads ftruck off with an hatchet. Inwhich kind I met with two very rare, and an-cient coins in lilver,at Confiantinople, both madewith a very fair relew , and both agreeing itthe fame image , and infcripcion : the omweighed idle then the Attick tetradrachme, thtOther wanted fomcwhac of the drachme. An( becaul «^. of the Denariusl becaufe the coin hath not, I think, been feenbyany Antiquary, and the hiftory Is remarkable,!(hal here exptefs the figure of the faireft of thefc. 6i. And the hiftory I fliall relate out of ^ Hera- d uev/tdMu elides* NofMV </lfc rivai (pdct ^ ^a.^ In. tktk ^^>«^ ^T? anrorofjiMVi tb a/7roMKo(p^tTiviJ\io7n\iKH. Theyfay King Tennes wW* a latv, »^^r // one took^another in adultery, he Jhould kill him with anhatchet. His fonne being found fo, and he thattook hinty asking the King what hefhould do, heanfVered execute the LaVc : and for this reafon ofone fide of his money there Woi an hatchet imprin-ted , on the other the face of a man , and of areoman^arifing out of one neck* From hence is itfaidoffevere aQionsy to be cut withaTenedianhatchet. For which exemplary juftice thofe ofTenedos, as it is probable , deified King TeneSf* Tully Writes, TenedifTenem \_Deum appellant^: * ;^^and again, ^Tenem apud Tenedios putant ejfefan- de natwA d^- aiJfmHm ^m- ^4 Of the Demrims- Elijft
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