Postea vero repleto vaso in eadem aqua ipsa corona demissa invenit plus aquae defluxisse in coronam quam in auream eodem pondere massam, et ita ex eo, quod fuerit plus aquae in corona quam in massa, ratiocinatus reprehendit argenti in auro mittionem et manifestum furtum redemptoris.
He then let down the crown itself into the vase after filling the vase with water, and found that more water flowed into the space left by the crown than into the space left by a mass of gold of the same weight. And so from the fact that there was more water in the case of the crown than in the mass of gold, he calculated and detected the mixture of the silver with the gold, and the fraud of the contractor.
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