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account, although that sense may sometimes seem to be rather clumsily expressed.
'A0. IIo\. c. 10. *Ei/ pev ovv TO?? vo/jioi? ravra So/re? 6eivai ?>yjfjLoriKa, *npo Se r?j$ vofjioOeffia? 7ron^<7a[t] rfy rwv %[_p"]eS[v a7rd]KOKYiv, KCU /lera ravra rv\v re rwv /Jierpwv KOL ara6fj,tov KCU r^v TOU yo/ju'oyiaTos1 av^rjaw. err' ixeivov yap iyei/ero teal ra fjierpa nelgw rwv Qe&wvei&v, KCU 07 p, v a \_cr~\ra\_6fJL\ov e/SSoju^/rovra Spa^jua? TCU? eA-aroV. fjv 8' 6 ap%cuo? j(apaKrrjp Se KCU araBpa Trpos T[O] VQ\LIG\UJL pi/as TO TaXaj/TOV dyovcra^ iced [at repels p,vaL r!a (rrarypi KOI TO??
In the first place, it is quite clear that there was a general increase in the weights all round. Contrary as this is to all our previous notions, the words camera and jLte/f to are, as Lehmann has remarked,3 in harmony with the rest of the passage, and undoubtedly authentic. Apart from this, the repetition of the article before TOV vo/i/<r/io/ro9 is odd, and one might have been tempted to suggest T{]V re rwv jLter/MV KOI crraOfJiSi/ (avfyjcnvy KCU Tr}i/ TOW i/o/ju'ffjuaTos (/zet'w<r«/). But as we shall see, such audacity is not called for.
The measures, we are told, were made greater than the Pheidonian, and the mina, which formerly weighed about 70 drachms, was increased to the weight of 100 drachms.
Lehmann has shown that the Pheidonian mina, which was in use in Athens before the reform of Solon, weighed between 606*4 and 598 grammes. The drachm of Solon's new system (in terms of which the writer expresses the Pheidonian mina) must therefore have been 7^ of this
3 Zur 'A0. IIoX. in Hermes, 1892, p. 580.
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