[Footnote 163: I might implicitly acquiesce in the sense and
learning of the three books of G. Noodt, de foenore et
usuris. (Opp. tom. i. p. 175 - 268.) The interpretation of
the asses or centesimoe usuroe at twelve, the unciarioe at
one per cent., is maintained by the best critics and
civilians: Noodt, (l. ii. c. 2, p. 207,) Gravina, (Opp. p.
205, &c., 210,) Heineccius, (Antiquitat. ad Institut. l.
iii. tit. xv.,) Montesquieu, (Esprit des Loix, l. xxii. c.
22, tom. ii. p. 36. Defense de l'Esprit des Loix, tom. iii.
p. 478, &c.,) and above all, John Frederic Gronovius (de
Pecunia Veteri, l. iii. c. 13, p. 213 - 227, and his three
Antexegeses, p. 455 - 655, the founder, or at least the
champion, of this probable opinion; which is, however,
perplexed with some difficulties.]