[Footnote 133: Elmacin, Hist. Saracen. p. 218; and this
gross lump is swallowed without scruple by D'Herbelot,
(Bibliot. Orient. p. 1031,) Ar. buthnot, (Tables of Ancient
Coins, p. 262,) and De Guignes, (Hist. des Huns, tom. iii.
p. 135.) They might allege the not less extravagant
liberality of Appian in favor of the Ptolemies (in praefat.)
of seventy four myriads, 740,000 talents, an annual income
of 185, or near 300 millions of pounds sterling, according
as we reckon by the Egyptian or the Alexandrian talent,
(Bernard, de Ponderibus Antiq. p. 186.)]
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