[641] Ibid., VI, ii, 5, 9; VII, xxiv, etc.
[642] Cod., XII, iii, 3.
[643] Cod. Theod., VII, xxiii.
[644] Ibid., XII, xiii, and Godefroy’s commentaries. Cod., X, lxxiv.
[645] Cod. Theod., VI, xxx, 2; Nov., xxx, etc.
[646] Cod. Theod., X, vi; XV, x, and Godefroy ad loc.
[647] Ibid., X, xix; Cod., XI, vi; see Dureau de la Malle (op. cit., iv, 17), who summarizes with refs. our scanty information on the subject. It seems that the ancient methods of working the ore were very defective, and the scoriae of the famous silver mines at Laurium have been treated for the third time in recent years with good results; see Cordella, Berg u. hüttenmän. Zeitung, xlii, 1883, p. 21; Strabo, IX, 1.
[648] Cod. Theod., I, v, 1, etc. Chrysostom alludes to the severity of the miner’s existence; Stagirium, 13; Mart. Aegypt., 2 (in Migne, i, 490; ii, 697). During the Gothic revolt of 376 the Thracian miners joined the insurgents; Ammianus, xxxi, 6.
[649] Cod. Theod., XI, i, 1, 34; v, 3, 4; xvi, 8, etc.
[650] Cod. Theod., XI, i, 15, 16; xxv; XII, vi, 15, etc.