Note 008 Bis millies octingenties. Vopiscus in Hist. August. p. 229. [Tacit. c. 10.] This sum, according to old standard, was equivalent to eight hundred and forty thousand Roman pounds of silver, each of the value of three pounds sterling. But in the age of Tacitus the coin had lost much of its weight and purity.

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Note to Chapter 12 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon