History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 1 (of 4)

by W. S. Lindsay

[80] Ezek. xxvii. ver. 12.

[81] Ver. 25.

[82] De Mirab. Ausc. 147; cf. Diod. v. 35.

[83] Lucret. v. 1256; Strab. iii. 147 and 159; Polyb. x. 10; Plin. xxxiv. 15; Martial, iv. 35.

[84] Plin. iv. 34; xxxiv. 47; Strab. iii. 147.

[85] Diod. v. 38, 5.

[86] Vide Lassen ap. Ritter’s Erdkunde, v. p. 549; and cf. Hom. Il. xxiii. 503, who was clearly aware of the practice of tinning.

[87] Strabo, iii. 5. For further details of the tin trade, vide Herod. iii. 115; Arist. de Mundo, viii. 3; Polyb. iii. 37; Strab. v. 10; Phillips’ Mineralogy, p. 249.

[88] Plin. iii. 26.

[89] Tac. Germ. 44, 45.