Note 024
The Attic talent weighed about sixty minae, or avoirdupois pounds (see Hooper on Ancient Weights, Measures, &c.;) but among the modern Greeks, that classic appellation was extended to a weight of one hundred, or one hundred and twenty-five pounds, (Ducange, 
Leonardus Chiensis measured the ball or stone of the second cannon:
Lapidem, qui palmis undecim ex meis ambibat in gyro.
Extra note by the Rev. H. H. Milman —1782 (Written), 1845 (Revised)
Von Hammer states that he had himself seen the great cannon of the Dardanelles, in which a tailor who had run away from his creditors, had concealed himself several days. Von Hammer had measured balls twelve spans round.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 68