Note 2265 — Chapter XII · EXPORTS OF THE ISLANDS, ITALY, GAUL, AND SPAIN.
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Among the exports of this country gold, found in a virgin state, near the surface of the earth, was at one time included: aurum ... invenitur aliquando in summa tellure protinus, rara felicitate: ut nuper in Dalmatia principatu Neronis, singulis diebus etiam quinquagenas libras fundens. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 21.