Note 2657 — Chapter XIII · EXPORTS FROM AFRICA AND THE EAST.
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When certain articles of this merchandise, as pepper, for example, reached Athens, the merchants were sometimes denounced by sycophants as spies of the great king, and threatened, at least, with the torture. Antiphon. ap. Athen. ii. 73. Casaub. Animadv. t. vi. p. 445.