Note 45 — Chapter II · HISTORY OF THE SILK MANUFACTURE CONTINUED TO THE FOURTH CENTURY.

“The remaining shores are occupied by savage nations, as the Melanchlæni and Coraxi, Dioscurias, a City of the Colchians, near the river Anthemus, being now deserted, although formerly so illustrious, that Timosthenes has recorded that three hundred nations used to resort to it speaking different languages; and that business was afterwards transacted on our part through the medium of one hundred and thirty interpreters.”