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This Book Brings Together André Tchernia's Previously Published Essays, Updated And Revised, With Recent Notes And Prefaced With An Entirely New Synthesis Of His Views On Roman Commerce With A Particular Emphasis On The People Involved In It--jacket. Part I. The Romans And Trade: 1. Landowners And Traders: Products Of The Estate: A Broad Connotation -- The Landowner's Range Of Activities -- The Separation Between Production And Long-distance Trading -- Senators Engaged In The Export Business? -- Ideological Problems -- Secrecy Theory -- Financing Trade And Its Channels -- Conclusion -- 2. Traders' Fortunes: Seneca And Cornelius Senecio -- Those Who Are Trying To Make Their Fortune Honourably, Via Trade -- Between Puteoli And The Red Sea -- Painted Inscriptions On The Amphorae From Baetica -- Urban Fortunes -- Diversity And Specificity -- 3. The Matter Of The Market: The Enormous Conglomeration Of Interdependent Markets: A Red Herring -- Divergent Opinions -- Archaeological Evidence And Its Interpretation -- Modes Of Transport -- The Influence Of Transaction Costs: Growing Inequality -- Paradoxes -- 4. The Role Of The State: Limits To State Participation -- Supplying The Army -- Side Effects Of Food-supply Policy -- Demography -- Conclusion -- 5. Meeting Needs -- Part Ii. Scripta Varia: 6. Dreams Of Wealth, Loans, And Seaborne Trade -- 7. The Sale Of Wine: The Point Of View Of The Producer -- The Point Of View Of The Buyer -- 8. The Plebiscitum Claudianum: The Prohibition On Owning Seagoing Vessels With A Capacity Greater Than 300 Amphorae -- A Tonnage Deemed Sufficient For Transporting One's Own Produce -- Quaestus And The Ordering Of The Parts Of The Preamble -- Evolution Of The Plebiscitum Claudianum: In Verrem And The Lex Iulia De Repetundis -- The Impossiblity Of Tendering For Tax Crain Contracts -- The Senators' Anger -- Quaestus Omnis Patribus Indecorus: The Third Century -- The Meanings Of Quaestus -- Talk And Actions -- Per Incerta Maris -- Recapitulation -