Moreover, he added the treasures in the i.e. besides the temple of Minerva, which was the public treasury. other temples, to no small amount, which they would use; and, in case of their being absolutely excluded from all resources, even the golden appendages of the goddess herself; explaining to them that the statue contained 40 talents of pure gold, and that it was all removable; and after using it for their preservation they must, he said, restore it to the same amount.
With regard to money, then, he thus encouraged them. And as for heavy-armed troops, he told them that they had thirteen thousand, besides those in garrisons and Literally, soldiers to line a parapet, i.e. for garrison duty. — Arnold. on the ramparts to the number of sixteen thousand.