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TALAHIA.
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TALI'S.
TALA.RIA, small wings, fixed to the ancles
of Hermes and reckoned among his attri-
butes (we'SiAa, 7rnjra7re'SiAos). In many works
of ancient art the)7 are represented growing
from his ancles (see cut, p. 63) ; but more
frequently he is represented with sandals,
which have wings fastened to them on each
side over the ancles*
Talaria. (From a Statue of Hermes at Naples.)
TALASSIO. [Matexkontuk.]
TALENTUM (Tdkavrov) meant originally
a balance [Libra], then the substance
weighed, and lastly and commonly a certain
weight, the talent. The Greek system of
money, as well as the Roman [As], was
founded on a reference to weight. A cer-
tain weight of silver among the Greeks, as
of copper among the Romans, was used as a
representative of a value, which was origin-
ally and generally that of the metal itself.
The talent therefore and its divisions are
denominations of money as well as of weight.
The Greek system of weights contained four
principal denominations, which, though dif-
ferent in different times and places, and even
at the same place for different substances,
always bore the same relation to each other.
These were the talent (jakavrov), which was
the largest, then the mina i^va), the drachma
(SpaxM), and the obolus (6/3oAos). [See
Tables.] The Attic and Aeginetan were the
two standards of money most in use in Greece.
The Attic mina was 41. Is. 3d., and the talent
243/. 15s. The Aeginetanminawas 51. lis. Id.,
and the talent 313/. 15s. The Euboie talent
was of nearly the same weight as the Attic.
A much smaller talent was in use for gold.
It was equal to six Attic drachmae, or about
f oz. and 71 grs. It was called the gold
talent, or the Sicilian talent, from its being
much used by the Greeks of Italy and Sicily.
This is the talent always meant when the
word occurs in Homer. This small talent
explains the use of the term great talent
(magnum talcntum), which we find in Latin
authors, for the silver Attic talent was great
in comparison with this. But the use of the
word by the Romans is altogether very in-
exact. Where talents are mentioned in the
classical writers without any specification of
the standard, we must generally understand
the Attic.
TALIO, from Talis, signifies an equivalent,
hut it is used only in the sense of a punish-
ment or penalty the same in kind and degree
as the mischief which the guilty person has
done to the body of another. Talio, as a
punishment, was a part of the Mosaic law.
TALUS (acrrpayaAos), a huckle-bone. The
huckle-bones of sheep and goats were used
to play with from the earliest times, princi-
pally by women and children, occasionally by
old men. To play at this game was some-
Game ot Tall, (From an ancient Painting.)
361
TALI'S.
TALA.RIA, small wings, fixed to the ancles
of Hermes and reckoned among his attri-
butes (we'SiAa, 7rnjra7re'SiAos). In many works
of ancient art the)7 are represented growing
from his ancles (see cut, p. 63) ; but more
frequently he is represented with sandals,
which have wings fastened to them on each
side over the ancles*
Talaria. (From a Statue of Hermes at Naples.)
TALASSIO. [Matexkontuk.]
TALENTUM (Tdkavrov) meant originally
a balance [Libra], then the substance
weighed, and lastly and commonly a certain
weight, the talent. The Greek system of
money, as well as the Roman [As], was
founded on a reference to weight. A cer-
tain weight of silver among the Greeks, as
of copper among the Romans, was used as a
representative of a value, which was origin-
ally and generally that of the metal itself.
The talent therefore and its divisions are
denominations of money as well as of weight.
The Greek system of weights contained four
principal denominations, which, though dif-
ferent in different times and places, and even
at the same place for different substances,
always bore the same relation to each other.
These were the talent (jakavrov), which was
the largest, then the mina i^va), the drachma
(SpaxM), and the obolus (6/3oAos). [See
Tables.] The Attic and Aeginetan were the
two standards of money most in use in Greece.
The Attic mina was 41. Is. 3d., and the talent
243/. 15s. The Aeginetanminawas 51. lis. Id.,
and the talent 313/. 15s. The Euboie talent
was of nearly the same weight as the Attic.
A much smaller talent was in use for gold.
It was equal to six Attic drachmae, or about
f oz. and 71 grs. It was called the gold
talent, or the Sicilian talent, from its being
much used by the Greeks of Italy and Sicily.
This is the talent always meant when the
word occurs in Homer. This small talent
explains the use of the term great talent
(magnum talcntum), which we find in Latin
authors, for the silver Attic talent was great
in comparison with this. But the use of the
word by the Romans is altogether very in-
exact. Where talents are mentioned in the
classical writers without any specification of
the standard, we must generally understand
the Attic.
TALIO, from Talis, signifies an equivalent,
hut it is used only in the sense of a punish-
ment or penalty the same in kind and degree
as the mischief which the guilty person has
done to the body of another. Talio, as a
punishment, was a part of the Mosaic law.
TALUS (acrrpayaAos), a huckle-bone. The
huckle-bones of sheep and goats were used
to play with from the earliest times, princi-
pally by women and children, occasionally by
old men. To play at this game was some-
Game ot Tall, (From an ancient Painting.)