359
Appian,
360
Strabo, XII. v. § 7.
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Strabo (XII. v. § 3) tells us that Pessinus was the greatest mart of the province.
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Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 23.
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Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 26.
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Diodorus Siculus, XVIII. 16.
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Strabo, XII. ii. § 10.
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About 3,500,000 francs [£140,000]. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 37.) See Appian,
367
Strabo, XII. ii. 7, 8.
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Falkener,
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It was thence that the fleets of the kings of Pergamus put to sea. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 40; XLIV. 28.)
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The name of Pergamus is preserved in our modern languages in the word “parchment” (
372
Attalus I., King of Pergamus, gave to the Sicyonians 11,000 medimni of wheat. (Titus Livius, XXXII. 40.) – Eumenius II. lent 80,000 to the Rhodians. (Polybius, XXXI. xvii. 2.)
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Strabo, XII. viii. § 11.
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Athenæus, XV. xxxviii. 513, ed. Schweighæuser.
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The Sea of Marmora took its name from these quarries of marble.
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Κυξικηνοἱ στατἡρες, whence the word
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Strabo, XIII. i. § 23.
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Strabo, XV. iii. § 22.
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Titus Livius, XXXII. 16; XXXVI. 43.
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Titus Livius, XXXVII. 8.
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The petty king Moagetes, who reigned at Cibyra, in Phrygia, gave a hundred talents and 10,000 medimni of corn (Polybius, XXII. 17. – Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 14 and 15); Termessus, fifty talents; Aspendus, Sagalassus, and all the cities of Pamphylia, paid the same (Polybius, XXII. 18 and 19); and the towns of this part of Asia contributed, at the first summons of the Roman general, for about 600 talents (3,500,000 francs [£140,000]); they also delivered to him about 60,000 medimni of corn.
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Titus Livius, XXXIX. 6.
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Manlius, although he had been despoiled on his way home of a part of his immense booty by the mountaineers of Thrace, displayed, at his triumph, crowns of gold to the weight of 212 pounds, 220,000 pounds of silver, 2,103 pounds of gold, more than 127,000 Attic tetradrachms, 250,000 cistophori, and 16,320 gold coins of Philip. (Titus Livius, XXXIX. 7.)
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Appian,
385
Arrian,
386
Strabo, XIV. ii. 565.
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Strabo, XIV. i. § 6.
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Pliny,
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Strabo, XIV. iii. § 6.
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Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 39.
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Scylax,
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Herodotus, I. 176.
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Pliny,
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Strabo, XIV. v. § 2.
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Strabo, XIV. v. § 2.
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Tarsus had still naval arsenals in the time of Strabo (XIV. v. § 12
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Arrian,
398
Polybius, XXII. 7.
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Seleucus founded sixteen towns of the name of
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Pliny (
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Strabo, XVI. ii. § 5. – Pausanias, VI. ii. § 7.
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John Malalas,
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Strabo, XVI. ii. § 4.
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Strabo, XVI. ii. § 6.
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Strabo, XVI. ii. § 10.
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It was raised on a terrace a thousand feet long by three hundred feet broad, and was built with stones 70 feet long.
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The empire of Seleucus comprised seventy-two satrapies. (Appian,
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Polybius, X. 27. Ecbatana paid to Antiochus III. a tribute of 4,000 talents (Attic talents = 23,284,000 francs [£931,360]), the produce of the casting of silver tiles which roofed one of its temples. Alexander the Great had already carried away those of the roof of the palace of the kings.
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The country of Gerra, among the Arabians, paid 500 talents to Antiochus (Attic talents = 2,910,500 francs [£116,420]). (Polybius, XIII. 9.) – There was formerly a great quantity of gold in Arabia. (Job xxviii. 1, 2. – Diodorus Siculus, II. 50.)
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Strabo, XVI. iii. § 3.
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Strabo, XI. ii. 426
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Pliny,
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Polybius, V. 54. If, as is probable, Babylonian talents are intended, this would make about 7,426,000 francs [£297,040], Seleucia, on the Tigris, was very populous. Pliny (
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In 565, Antiochus III. gives 15,000 talents (Euboic talents = 87,315,000 francs [£3,492,600]). (Polybius, XXI. 14. – Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 37.) In the treaty of the following year, the Romans stipulated for a tribute of 12,000 Attic talents of the purest gold, payable in twelve years, each talent of 80 pounds Roman (69,852,000 francs [£2,794,080]). (Polybius, XXII. 26, § 19.) In addition to this, Eumenes was to receive 359 talents (2,089,739