Reliquit in aerario sexcenties millies mille
stateres, et quater et vicies millies mille aureos aureos.
Elmacin, Hist. Saracen. p. 126.
I have reckoned the gold pieces at eight shillings, and the proportion to the silver as twelve to one. But I will never answer for the numbers of Erpenius; and the Latins are scarcely above the savages in the language of arithmetic.