in the East.[1574] Prohibitions to export money, as Bœckh observes, were unknown in ancient times, and are only compatible with bills of exchange.[1575] ----- Footnote 1571: Cf. Xen. de Rep. Athen. ii. 6. Footnote 1572: Bœckh, Pub. Econ. of Athens, i. 65. Footnote 1573: Xenoph. de Vectig. i. 7. Footnote 1574: Id. iii. 2. Footnote 1575: Bœckh. Pub. Econ. of Athens, i. 65. ----- Though war to a certain extent interfered with Athenian commerce, yet, being masters of the sea, they could generally command a plentiful supply of foreign commodities, so that many articles regarded as rare in other countries might be found abundantly in the warehouses of the Peiræeus. “Hither, on account of the richness of our city,” says Pericles, “are borne the products of all lands, so that we are not more familiar with the use of wheat grown in Attica than with the productions of other countries.”[1576] So Isocrates: “the Peiræeus, has been established as an emporium in the heart of Greece, and so far excels all its rivals, that articles with difficulty met with singly in other ports may be readily found here altogether.”[1577] And true it is, that every region of the east and island of the Mediterranean poured their productions into Attica, whence they were distributed throughout Greece. Thither were brought the magnificent carpets and fine wool of Persia, Phrygia, and Miletos; the gloves and purple of Tyre and Sidon; the fine linen of Egypt;[1578] the gold and ivory of Africa; the pearls of India and the Red Sea;[1579] white and black slaves, and corn, and timber, and spices, and costly wines, and perfumes from Spain, Sicily, Italy, Cypros, Lydia, the Black Sea, and the farthest regions of the east.[1580] ----- Footnote 1576: Thucyd. ii. 38. Footnote 1577: Isocrat. Panath. § 11. Footnote 1578: Demosth. cont. Aphob. § 6. Footnote 1579: Philost. Vit. Soph. ii. 21. § 2. See chapters xi. xii. and xiii. of this book. Footnote 1580: Bœckh, i. 66. -----