 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 sider
...descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire103. The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold104; precious stones, among 101 Tacit. Germania, c. 45. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxviii. 11. The latter... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 sider
...Red sea to the Nile, and had .descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured without delay, into the capital of the empire.' The objects of oriental...esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold ;m precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ;n and a variety... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 sider
...that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire. ll>:! The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and trifling ; silk, a pound ol which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold ;101 precious stones, among which the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 sider
...descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without dela^, into the capital of the empire.(S) The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value toa pound of gold ;(4) precious stones, among which the pearl c'aimed the first rank after the diamond... | |
 | William Knighton - 1845 - 424 sider
...suppose that they would avail themselves of one monsoon in going, and of the opposite in returning. " The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gqld ; precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ; and a variety... | |
 | 1848 - 688 sider
...then deposited in vessels which descended that river to Alexandria, and from that point it was poured into the capital of the empire. The objects of oriental...splendid and trifling: silk, a pound of which was considered equal to a pound of gold ; precious stones, among which the pearl was considered next in... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 sider
...induced this destructive drain upon the metallic treasures of the empire. " The objects," says Gibbon, " of Oriental traffic were splendid and trifling ; silk — a pound of which was esteemed worth a pound of gold — precious stones, and a variety of arorn atics, were the chief articles. The... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1852 - 530 sider
...rich. It is mentioned by Mr. Gibbon as such an article in Bome in the age of the Antonines : — " Silk, a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold." i. 34. On the cultivation and manufacture of silk by the ancients, see the work entitled The Hi»lary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 sider
...descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire.103 The objects of oriental traffic were splendid and...esteemed not inferior in value to a pound of gold ;10* precious stones, among which the pearl claimed the first rank after the diamond ;los and a variety... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1854 - 466 sider
...returning in the month of December or January. " The principal objecte of Oriental traffic," says Gibbon, " were splendid and trifling: silk (a pound of which was esteemed not inferior in value to ia pound of gold), precious stones, and a variety of aromatics." When Strabo visited Egypt, the Myos... | |
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... return of the fleet of Egypt was fixed to the months of December or January ; and as soon as their rich cargo had been transported on the backs of camels from the Red Sea to the Nile, and had descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured,... 
