[Footnote 96: The value of an ox rose from five solidi,
(fifteen shillings,) at Christmas to two marks, (four
pounds,) and afterwards much higher; a kid or lamb, from one
shilling to eighteen of our present money: in the second
famine, a loaf of bread, or the head of an animal, sold for
a piece of gold. More examples might be produced; but it is
the ordinary, not the extraordinary, prices, that deserve
the notice of the philosopher.]