The project of Nero, therefore, who designed to open a canal at this place, would, if completed, have proved of the greatest service to the Corinthians, whose city might have continued to be enriched by it to the present day. ----- Footnote 1557: Luc. Dial. Mort. 11. Footnote 1558: Steph. de Urb. p. 464. d. Footnote 1559: Strab. viii. 6. t. ii. 213. Pausan. ii. 2. 3. ----- With respect to the articles which Corinth herself supplied to commerce, they will be found enumerated among the exports and imports of Greece. Her manufactures were numerous and important,[1561] consisting, among others, of rich coverlets, fine woollen garments, costly pottery, and works in that rich metal known under the name of Corinthian bronze. This, it is said, consisted of a small mixture of gold and silver with brass; though, according to another account, it was produced by heating the metal red-hot, and in that state plunging it into the waters of Peirenè.[1562] ----- Footnote 1560: Μαλεὰ δε κάμψας ἐπιλάθου τῶν οἴκαδε. See the long and interesting note of Berkelius ad Steph. de Urb. p. 531, seq. Footnote 1561: And, doubtless, worked by their forty-six myriads of slaves. Athen. vi. 103. The Pythian Oracle calls the Corinthians Chœnix Measurers, probably because they allowed their slaves a chœnix of corn per day. Footnote 1562: Paus. ii. 3. 3. Florus, ii. 16. ----- Much trade was carried on in the territories of Corinth during the celebration of the Isthmian games, which, bringing together a vast multitude of people from Ionia, Sicily, Italy, Libya, Thessaly, and the extremities of the Black Sea, necessarily attracted thither, among the rest, the retailers of all kinds of provisions. These finding a speedy market for their goods, other tradesmen followed their example, so that at length assemblies, originating in religion, resembled prodigious fairs,[1563] whither every description of merchandise was conveyed for the admiration and purchase of the pilgrims.[1564] ----- Footnote 1563: It is said, moreover, that Iphilos established a fair at Olympia, together with the sacred games. Vel. Paterc. i. 8. Strab. viii. 3. t. i. p. 178. Footnote 1564: Dion Chrysost. i. 289. -----