3/38 This sum is taken from Codinus, Antiquit.Const.p. 11; but unless that contemptible author had derived his information from some purer sources, he would probably have been unacquainted with so obsolete a mode of reckoning.] [Footnote 40: For the forests of the Black Sea, consult Tournefort, Lettre XVI. for the marble quarries of Proconnesus, see Strabo, l. Casaub.) The latter had already furnished the materials of the stately buildings of Cyzicus.] [Footnote 41: See the Codex Theodos.l.xiii.tit.iv. leg.1.This law is dated in the year 334, and was addressed to the praefect of Italy, whose jurisdiction extended over Africa. |