TALENT

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A Grecian weight, which was much used in the computation of money. It contained 60 minae; but its value varied in diflerent states. The Attic talent was equivalent to about 198/. of English money; the JEginetan to 331/. (See as to the Attic talent, Boeckh, i. 25.; Gibbon's Mis cell an. Works iii. 410.) 4 H 3 TALES. [s. 1218]