[792] Strabo, XVI, iv, 24; Pliny, op. cit., v, 16. There were different shades of purple and only the imperial shade was prohibited; Pliny, op. cit., xxi, 22. The murex was gathered in several other places, especially Laconia, where it was inferior only to that of Tyre; Pausanias, iii, 21, etc.
[793] Sozomen, v, 15. Much money was also coined at Cyzicus.
[794] Cod. Theod., X, xx, 8.
[795] Cod., IV, lxxxiii, 6. This doubtless applied only to great houses, not to petty retail dealers and shopkeepers (to the ἔμπορος not the κάπηλος); the number seems too large to understand it of the capital alone.
[796] Pliny, op. cit., viii, 73; Athenaeus, i, 50; xv, 17, etc.
[797] Strabo, XII, viii, 16; Pliny, op. cit., 73, etc.
[798] Athenaeus, ii, 30; vi, 67.
[799] Pliny, op. cit., xi, 27, etc. It is a question whether the transparent Coan fabrics were of silk, linen, or cotton, or a mixture.
[800] Procopius, Anecdot., 25.
[801] Ibid.