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Four minae were equal to thirteen pounds six shillings and

eightpence; five minae to sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and

fourpence. Something not less than the largest of those two sums,

therefore, must at that time have been usually paid to the most

eminent teachers at Athens. Isocrates himself demanded ten minae,

or £ 33:6:8 from each scholar. When he taught at Athens, he is

said to have had a hundred scholars. I understand this to be the

number whom he taught at one time, or who attended what we would

call one course of lectures; a number which will not appear

extraordinary from so great a city to so famous a teacher, who

taught, too, what was at that time the most fashionable of all

sciences, rhetoric. He must have made, therefore, by each course

of lectures, a thousand minae, or £ 3335:6:8. A thousand minae,

accordingly, is said by Plutarch, in another place, to have been

his didactron, or usual price of teaching.