and would therefore uſe the ſame meaſure with that employed in buildings. It appears then that this foot was uſed in ſuperficial meaſurement; and Vitruvius, who derives his meaſurs from the proportions of the human body, which he aifumes as a ſtandard, makes' no difference between the foot uſed in the conſtruction of buildings, and that employed in the menſuration of diſtances on the road. The author of the Treatiſe de Menſuris[1] ſays farther, that the meaſures taken from the proportions of the human body are thoſe "quæ ad viatores ſeu ad curſores pertinent"
Romans uſed one kind of foot meaſure only.We may then, I think, fairly conclude, that the Romans uſed one foot meaſure only, and that the Coſſutian foot was the Roman foot for all purpoſes.
Dr. Murdoch ſpeaks twice of the pes monetalis of Athens, for which he ſeems to cite Greaves, who is ſo far from regarding it as an Attic meaſure, that he calls it the pes monetalis[2], or Romanus.
Dr. Murdoch again ſays, that the proportion of the pes monetilis to the Engliſh foot is as 19 to 20; and adds, that the term monetalals is to be found in Hyginus. It is certainly mentioned twice by that author; but it refers in both places to the Roman, and not to the Attic foot.
Pes monetalis whence derived.The word monetalis is of Roman [3], not of Greek extraction, and- ↑ Rei Agrarian Seriptorea, Goefii, p. 320.
- ↑ On the Roman foot.
- ↑ Μόνητα ἢ Ἧρα παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις. Phav. Lexie.
Vocem ab æde quocrica Junonem illam appellatam Monetam. Cicero de Divination.
The Romans, being in want of money at the time of the war with Pyrrhus, invoked the aſſitance of Juno; who replied, in anſwer to their applications, that if the war which they
