The stater-aureus of the Greeks weighing two Attic drachms
The stater-daricus

The Roman aureus was of different value at different periods. According to

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the proportion mentioned by Tacitus, when it exchanged for 25 denarii, it was of the same value as the Grecian stater.

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ARISTIDES

Is banished for ten years, but recalled at the expiration of 270
three.

481

Beats the Persians both at sea and land.
Socrates is born. He lived 71 years

Cimon dies. Alcibiades born the same year. Herodotus
and Thucydides flourish; the latter is twelve or thirteen
years younger than the former.

Pindar dies, eighty years old

Is declared general of all Greece against the Persians, 417
upon the death of his father Philip.

334

The battle of the Granicus

419

332

Who had attained to a considerable rank amongst the 437
successors of Alexander the Great, is betrayed to Anti-
gonus and put to death.

95

96

314

Surnamed Poliorcetes, permitted by his father Antigonus 439
to command the army in Syria, when only twenty-two
years of age. He restores the Athenians to their liber-
ty, but they choose to remain in the worst chains, those
of servility and meanness.

Dionysius, the tyrant, dies at Heraclea, aged 55.
In the year before Christ 288, died Theophrastus, aged 85.
And in the year before Christ 285, Theocritus flourished.

446

312

305

3723

cxxxviii. 2. Cotemporaries with Aratus, for Aratus being beaten by
Cleomenes, calls in Antigonus from Macedonia, which
proves the ruin of Greece.