22/38 181,) the ordinary rent of the several coenacula, or apartments of an insula, annually produced forty thousand sesterces, between three and four hundred pounds sterling, (Pandect. 30,) a sum which proves at once the large extent, and high value, of those common buildings.] [Footnote 71: This sum total is composed of 1780 domus, or great houses of 46,602 insuloe, or plebeian habitations, (see Nardini, Roma Antica, l.iii.p. 88;) and these numbers are ascertained by the agreement of the texts of the different Notitioe. Nardini, l.viii.p.498, 500.] [Footnote 72: See that accurate writer M.de Messance, Recherches sur la Population, p. |