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Show not deepez 'than fifteeJl-:et; ,lumps' a150ut the' si-ze {of .. a. In, acme '"" ... instances .bean Ol' :lupine· .... --,.... -, gold - well t oc ; as Here,' in found was - as ,,, digg.ings. ·Scap-te-Hle is ,-anot'her gol' Il'!inea .·1i.:It:·was place that 's:itnatea the k!elan'd €1'£ ·Tb.eosj" famous was in ancient Uonrthe :'Coast :o-'of (vihich) .-acccTd!ng·' to times "Phace.;'_ove_r .aga.Lns t Herodotus J .;. J its for ... annually ,,, "proC1uoed;eighty talents't {AnthO:o.)-;'·':_" In-'these"Inines; -Thucydites, hts.tbriafl, haa;l in latex days' - some' - of the' Hepmui3; J·1n intei'est •. ( .The Pactolus, .a branbh ... Lydia}:-ls the ahGtae rivefr-that· ·was ;famouafor its - gola, ':'in, ancient --:'day-s to rid. himeelf;..,of his' enG1?mGus"wea;;tth the 1:1 vel] tnat Mida,s bathedf"' in, :''1' 'as {St:tabcr Ca's * -' -touCh'Jt1ia.t-·trariBmuted-evey:thing intb-:gQld. Croesus-was 'Si:U,<i.: to have source of -This in .StraoQ". hau8t-ea mously. S"t This Vla.S :Ll"om'- t1iis>stl'!eam-that It wa's also his ' •. t:imel) e26. ::-St·:tll :It< had i t'·.mu'8:t at obtained gold:"was evidently early, aJ!rea:dyJceased one to: titt{e havt yield. p.:roQ.uced-· exa an V 'enor .... rMo'at of the, Bu-xrounl11ng:na.ti·ons')·..:when they wished:-- to .: ·for' atatuar;'- e r othei?c. purposes J • obtain\;any larg-e amount.'o,f goad auallyl slant to: Lydia for_;,it-. : "Through' S<tTabo {cas. 6HO), aa list&lof 'mines wczked by' the Minor and: Greece", -: ctE!:f..9_lJ_ow.:.." Pelopide was Sipulusj tha.t t> p-angr6' a sum; of .1t,ls "'Cadmus'; that ,of which at AbydoJ.;of ma.ins; deri:ved, + - n}.'h"_weal th' ald,.from·the of from- the'gold mines of_,Asis;, antaaus·· and he .. about -mines from the "m1nes about Priam,' wer. have 'fabtilouslt'·weal.mhy menarche _ rhrygia mines about are at Astyra., 'near present';(1n"Strabols t1me),.ithere'.are proofs of former working; .Bezmfum; that of that Gygas, Allyattes; and Thrace-and Mount small yet there is a'large.,quantity of matter"ejected, .. and excavations usu of-Midas, and Croesus re the from the J f romr Lydia and'tha small deserted city between·At&rneua and the mines in Pergumum, where are the sites of exhausted mines." |
