His error seems the omission of other spices, of which the Romans must have consumed great quantities in their cookery.

Wenck, however, admits that silver was the chief article of exchange .-- M.
In 1787, a peasant (near Nellore in the Carnatic) struck, in digging, on the remains of a Hindu temple; he found, also, a pot which contained Roman coins and medals of the second century, mostly Trajans, Adrians, and Faustinas, all of gold, many of them fresh and beautiful, others defaced or perforated, as if they had been worn as ornaments.

(Asiatic Researches, ii.

19.)--M.] [Footnote 106: Tacit.Annal.iii.53.In a speech of Tiberius.] [Footnote 107: Plin.Hist.Natur.xii.18.

In another place he computes half that sum; Quingenties H.S.for India exclusive of Arabia.] [Footnote 108: The proportion, which was 1 to 10, and 12 1/2, rose to 14 2/5, the legal regulation of Constantine.