Note 123 — Chapter XI · CARTEIA.—TYRE AND HER WARES.—GLASS.
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“Nothing was known of the balance of trade, and consequently all the violent measures resulting from it were unknown to the Greeks ... as everything was decided by examinations and not by theories, there may have been exceptions, where the state for a time usurped a monopoly. But how far was this from the mercantile and restrictive system of the moderns.”—Heeren Pol. Hist. Ancient Greece, c. x. 163.