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History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2

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Diodorus Siculus, XVIII. 16.

365

Strabo, XII. ii. § 10.

366

About 3,500,000 francs [£140,000]. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 37.) See Appian, Wars of Syria, xlii. – “Demetrius obtained soon afterwards a thousand talents (5,821,000 francs [£232,840]) from Olophernes for having established him on the throne of Cappadocia.” (Appian, Wars of Syria, xlvii.)

367

Strabo, XII. ii. 7, 8.

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Falkener, Ephesus: London, 1862.

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Natural History, V. xxx. 126.

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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” (pergamena), which was used to designate the skin which was prepared in that town to serve as paper, after the Ptolemies had prohibited the exportation of Egyptian papyrus.

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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 sequins.

377

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.

382

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.)

384

Appian, Wars of Mithridates, lxiii.

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Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander, I. xx. § 3. – Diodorus, XVII. 23.

386

Strabo, XIV. ii. 565.

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Strabo, XIV. i. § 6.

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Pliny, Natural History, V. 31.

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