Re: Yet another explanation for dain daiin...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >         Piglia vitriolo Romano on iiij salnitrio on iij limatura achi

Perhaps I should also add the painfully obvious observation that "iiij" 
upside down looks a lot like EVA "iiin", with the tail of the (inverted) 
"j" looping up and back over the preceding "i" strokes.

Here's a speculation: perhaps because of the rarity of measures greater 
than 4 ounces in these potions, it was simpler to write 7 ounces as (say) 
"daiin dain" (ie "on iiij on iij"). This wouldn't be  the most complex 
number-encoding format ever devised, but it would be fairly misleading. :-)