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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 1547 — Chapter VIII · COMMERCE OF DORIC STATES.

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Strab. viii. 5. l. ii. p. 186. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60. xi. 22. xxxv. 26. Horat. Carm. ii. 18. 8. The purple of Laconia was esteemed only second to that of Phœnicia:—κόχλους δὲ ἐς βαφὴν πορφύρας παρέχεται τὰ ἐπιθαλλάσσια τῆς Λακωνικῆς ἐπιτηδειοτάτας μετά γε τὴν Φοινίκων θάλασσαν. Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

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