A dictionary of Greek and Roman . etan drachma,calculated by Mr. Hussey (pp. 59, 60) from thecoins of Aegina and Boeotia, was 96 grains. It DUODECIM TABULARUM LEX. ECCLESIA. 439 contains about -g^nd part of the weight its value is 93 grains of pure silver, or, as 93 before. of a shilling; that is, Is. Id. 32 807 farthings. The largest coin of the Aeginetan stan-dard appears to have been the didrachma, and thevalues of the different coins of this standard willbe found in the Tables. The proportion of the Aeginetan drachma to theAttic, according to the value given above
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . etan drachma,calculated by Mr. Hussey (pp. 59, 60) from thecoins of Aegina and Boeotia, was 96 grains. It DUODECIM TABULARUM LEX. ECCLESIA. 439 contains about -g^nd part of the weight its value is 93 grains of pure silver, or, as 93 before. of a shilling; that is, Is. Id. 32 807 farthings. The largest coin of the Aeginetan stan-dard appears to have been the didrachma, and thevalues of the different coins of this standard willbe found in the Tables. The proportion of the Aeginetan drachma to theAttic, according to the value given above, is as 93to 65*4, or as 4T8 to 3 nearly. According toPollux, however, the proportion was 5 to 3 ; for hestates (ix. 76, 86) that the Aeginetan drachmawas equal to 10 Attic obols, and that the Aegine-tan talent contained 10,000 Attic drachmae. Fora full discussion of this question, which is one ofthe most interesting in ancient numismatics, andof the respective values of the other standardswhich were used by the Greeks, see Nummusand AEGINETAN DRACHMA. BRITISH SIZE. As the Romans reckoned in sesterces, so theGreeks generally reckoned by drachma? ; andwhen a sum i3 mentioned in the Attic writers,without any specification of the unit, drachmae areusually meant. (Bbckh, Pol. Econ. of Athens, 25.) DRACO. [Sigxa Mjllitaria.] DUCENARII, the name of various officersand magistrates, in the imperial period, of whomthe principal were as follow : — 1. The imperial procuratores, who received asalary of 200 sestertia. Dion Cassius (liii. 15)says that the procuratores first received a salaryin the time of Augustus, and that they derivedtheir title from the amount of their salary. Wethus read of centenarii, &c, as well as of duce-narii. (See Capitolin. Pertin. 2 ; Orelli, 946.) Claudius granted to the procuratoresducenarii the consular ornaments. (Suet. ) 2. A class or decuria of judices, first establishedby Augustus. They were so called be
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