The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1634.
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Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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CHAP. XXXIV. [unspec E]

¶ Of Measures and Weights.

ANd forasmuch as we shall haue occasion oftentimes in setting downe weights and mea∣sures, to vse Greeke vocables, I care not much euen in this place to interpret those words once for all. First and foremost, the Atticke Drachma [for all Physitians in manner go by the poise of Athens] doth peise iust a Roman siluer denier: and the same weigheth also six Oboli: now one Obulus is as much in weight as ten Chalci. A Cyathus of it selfe alone com∣meth to ten drams in weight. When you shal reade the measure of Acetabulum, take it for the fourth part of Hemina, that is to say, fifteen drams. To conclude, Mna, which we in Latine call Mina, amounteth iust to an hundred drams Atticke. [unspec F]