Som animadversions and observations upon Sr. Walter Raleigh's Historie of the world wherein his mistakes are noted and som doubtful passages cleered / by Alexander Ross.

Lib. 2. cap. 13. § 7.

IT is thought that the name of Monie was not-heard in Greece, when Homer did write, who measure's the value of gold and brass by the worth of cattle, saying, That the golden armor of Glaucus was worth a hundred Beevs, &c.] It is unlikelie that the name of Monie was not heard in Greece when Homer lived, whereas it was used in countries not far from Greece long before Homer: for Abimelech gave to Abraham a 1000 shekels as the Chaldee ex∣presseth that place, or a 1000 didrachms, as the Greeks translateth it, Gen. 20. So wee read that A∣braham bought for monie a Burial-place. It is not likelie then that in Homer's time, Greece beeing so flourishing a countrie, and having commerce with neighboring nations, should want the use of Mo∣nie, and although Homer speak's of a hundred Beevs, and not of Monie, yet hee may bee under∣stood to have spoken of monie stamped with the

image of an Ox: for at first the usual stamp upon monie was Cattle, hence pecunia à pecus: So Jacob's hundred Lambs, with which hee bought a plot of ground, Gen. 33. may bee meant of so manie pieces of silver, bearing the stamp of a Lamb; for monie is named from its stamp. So a hundred Angels si∣gnifie so manie pieces of gold having their picture: the efore Bos doth not onely signifie an Ox, but also the coin that bear's the picture of the ox: hence was the proverb, Bos in linguâ, for one that was tongue tied, beeing corrupted with monie. And not onely was pecunia called so from the picture, but also from the skins of cattle; for monie ancient∣ly was made of leather: And so wee may conceiv that Queen Dido encompassed the ground on which Carthage was to bee built, with an ox hide, that is with monie made of the ox hide: this kinde of mo∣nie was cascalled nummus scorteus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, for anciently they called all thing, made of skins scoxtea; hence scortum a where, in which there is nothing commendable but her skin.