As Diodorus says in On Weights, it is 60 m[i]nai, and the m[i]na [is] 100 drachmas,[1] and the drachma [is] 6 obols, and the obol [is] 6 coppers, and the copper [is] 7 lepta.[2] But the talent [is] that which is now called Attic; among Sicilians the ancient [talent] was of 24 m[i]nai, but now [it is] 12.[3]
But Homer says: "two talents of gold."[4] So the talent of our time is not equal to that among the ancients. For it is set equal to a tripod and a kettle and a horse.[5]
But a talent in the divine Scripture is the divine grace sent from on high to each person.[6]
[sc. An example of the] construction [sc. of this word].[7] Aristophanes [writes]: "yet Hyperbolos learned this for a talent." That is, persuasive mystification.[8]
[Note] that for some a talent has 125 pounds.[9]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] ταλαντιαῖοι λίθοι ["stones weighing a talent"]. "The stones that were thrown were [stones] weighing a talent; but they were two or more stades distant. The impact was irresistible not only for who fell on it, but even more for those with them."[10]
Censuring Pericles, they fined him fifty talents.[11]