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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt:...and adopted the business of piracy in their stead.3 Though the value of the precious metals was already well understood, they had not been adopted as the sole instruments of exchange; for, from the often-cited passage of the Iliad,4 it is clear that the practice of barter still prevailed. The poet describes certain ships arriving at the Grecian camp with a cargo of wine from Lemnos, on which the chiefs and soldiers flock to the shore, and provide themselves with what they needed, some giving in exchange for it a quantity of brass, iron, skins; and others, oxen or slaves. Among the rustic population of Greece, if the poets may be relied on, the system of barter prevailed down to a very late period, since we find the goatherd, in Theocritus,5 giving a she-goat and a cheesecake for a pastoral cup. The Spartans, too, after the death of Polydoros, purchased his palace 1 L. i. c. 2. See, also, Philost. 3 Conon. Dieg. 47. ap. Phot. Vit. Apollon. iii. 24. p. 114. Cod. 141. a. 20. Hudson, ad 2 Thucyd. i. 8. Tournefort, Thucyd. t. i. p. 302. See in Voyage, i. 154. The Phocians, Scheffer, De Re Militia Navali, also, about the time when they Addenda, Lib. Prim. p. 313, a founded Marseilles, distinguish-list of the nations who anciently ed themselves at once by their exercised the piratical art. mercantile and piratical habits. 4...._ „„ p.. Namque Phocenses exiguitate £ xxxiL ac macie terrae coacti studiosius mare quam terras exercufire: 5 Eidyll. i. 57, seq. where, for piscando, mercando plerumque rupoora, both Porson and Kiess etiam latrocinio maris quod illi ling propose rvpwvra. "Aprov Tv temporibus gloriae habebatur, vi-pSivra occurs in a fragment of tarn tolerabant. Justin. 43. 3. Sophron. ap. Athen. iii. 75. from the widow for a certain num...