Название: History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2
Автор: Napoleon III
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
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Pliny,
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Scylax of Caryanda,
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Polybius, XII. 3.
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Titus Livius, XXXIV. 62.
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58,200 francs (£2,328). (Titus Livius, XXII. 31.)
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Sallust,
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Pliny, citing this fact, throws doubt upon it. (
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Strabo, III. v. § 3.
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Strabo, III. ii. § 1.
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Pliny,
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Strabo, III. ii. § 3. – Pliny, III. i. 3; XXXIII. vii. 40.
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Above 25,000 francs [£1,000]. (Strabo, III. ii. § 10.)
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767,695 pounds of silver and 10,918 pounds of gold, without reckoning what was furnished by certain partial impositions, sometimes very heavy, such as those of Marcolica, one million of sestertii (230,000 francs [£9,200]), and of Certima, 2,400,000 sestertii (550,000 francs [£22,000]). (See Books XXVIII. to XLVI. of Titus Livius.) Such were the resources of Spain, even in the smallest localities, that in 602, C. Marcellus imposed on a little town of the Celtiberians (
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A fabulous people, spoken of by Homer. (Athenæus, I. xxviii. 60, edit. Schweighæuser.)
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Diodorus Siculus, V. 34, 35.
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Pliny,
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In the time of Hannibal, this town was one of the richest in the peninsula. (Appian,
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Strabo, III. iv. § 2.
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Polybius, XXXIV.,
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The medimnus of barley (52 litres) sold for one drachma (97 centimes); the medimnus of wheat, 9 oboli (about 1 franc 45 centimes). (The medium value of 52 litres in France is 10 francs.) A metretes of wine (39 litres) was worth one drachma (97 centimes); a hare, one obolus (16 centimes); a goat, one obolus (16 centimes); a lamb, from 3 to 4 oboli (50 to 60 centimes); a pig of a hundred pounds weight, 5 drachmas (4 francs 85 centimes); a sheep, 2 drachmas (1 franc 95 centimes); an ox for drawing, 10 drachmas (9 francs 70 centimes); a calf, 5 drachmas (4 francs 85 centimes); a
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Strabo, III. ii. § 1.
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Appian,
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Titus Livius, XXII. 20.
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Strabo, IV. i. § 11; ii. § 14; iii. § 3.
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See what M. Amedée Thierry says,
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Pliny, XXI. 31.
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Diodorus Siculus, V. 26. – Athenæus, IV. xxxvi. 94.
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Demosthenes,
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Strabo, IV. vi. § 2, 3.
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Diodorus Siculus, V. xxxix.
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See Titus Livius, XXXII. to XLII.
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See Strabo, V. i. § 10, 11.
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Strabo, V. i. § 12.
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Gold was originally very abundant in Gaul; but the mines whence it was extracted, and the rivers which carried it, must have been soon exhausted, for the quality of the Gaulish gold coins becomes more and more abased as the date of their fabrication approaches that of the Roman conquest.
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Strabo, V. i. § 7. – Titus Livius, X. 2.
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Pliny,
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Pliny,
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Small vessels, quick sailers, and rapid in their movements, excellent for piracy; also called
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Polybius, II. 5.
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Titus Livius, XLI. 2, 4, 11.
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Polybius, II. 8.
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Titus Livius, XXXIX. 5.
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Pliny, XXXV. 60.
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Polybius, XXII. 13.
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Polybius, XXX. xv. § 5. – Titus Livius, XLV. 34.
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Plutarch,
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Polybius, V. 9.
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Aristides,
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Pausanias,
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Plutarch,
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Pausanias,