p.
197.

This popular estimation allows some latitude; but it is difficult to explain a law in the Theodosian Code, (l.vi.leg.

5,) which fixes the expense of the first praetor at 25,000, of the second at 20,000, and of the third at 15,000 folles.

The name of follis (see Mem.

de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxviii.p.