Note 207 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.

This figure is given by the so-called Epitome of Victor, c. 1, for the time of Augustus. After this payment was transferred to Constantinople there went thither under Justinian (Ed. xiii. c. 8) annually 8,000,000 artabae (for these are to be understood, according to c. 6, as meant), or 26–2/3 millions of Roman bushels (Hultsch, Metrol. p. 628), to which falls further to be added the similar payment to the town of Alexandria, introduced by Diocletian. To the shipmasters for the freight to Constantinople 8000 solidi = £5000 were annually paid from the state-chest.