[368] Falkener, Ephesus: London, 1862.
[369] Natural History, V. xxx. 126.
[370] It was thence that the fleets of the kings of Pergamus put to sea. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 40; XLIV. 28.)
[371] 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.
[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.)
[373] Strabo, XII. viii. § 11.
[374] Athenæus, XV. xxxviii. 513, ed. Schweighæuser.
[375] The Sea of Marmora took its name from these quarries of marble.
[376] Κυξικηνοἱ στατἡρες, whence the word sequins.
[377] Strabo, XIII. i. § 23.