ἐργάζονται κ. τ. λ. = “whose business is on the sea”. The passage reflects the importance of Rome especially for the trade of the Levant. Pliny (H. N. vi. 101, xii. 84) gives the large figures of Oriental imports and their cost, adding sarcastically tanti nobis deliciae et feminae constant (Friedländer, iii. 48 51). The regret of the mariners for the grandeur that was Rome passes rapidly into a sense of commercial loss.

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