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CHAPTER XXXI: Invasion Of Italy, Occupation Of Territories By
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The collateral testimonies are produced in Godefroy's Commentary, and it is needless to transcribe them.

According to a law of Theodosius, which appreciates in money the military allowance, a piece of gold (eleven shillings) was equivalent to eighty pounds of bacon, or to eighty pounds of oil, or to twelve modii (or pecks) of salt, (Cod.Theod.l.viii.tit.

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17.) This equation, compared with another of seventy pounds of bacon for an amphora, (Cod.Theod.l.xiv.tit.

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