History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . t. vi. 26 : . . Quae apud nos centupticato veneant. In this pasPliny speaks only of the commerce with India, the principal objects of which the Digest (, 10, sect. 7), in a curious enumeration, makes known to us. The Romans also left much money with the Arabs, styled by the Romans the richest people in the world, 1 ause the treasures of the Parthians and Romans came into their hands. They sell the produce oftheir seas (pearls) and of their forests (odoriferous woods and incense), and buy nothin
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . t. vi. 26 : . . Quae apud nos centupticato veneant. In this pasPliny speaks only of the commerce with India, the principal objects of which the Digest (, 10, sect. 7), in a curious enumeration, makes known to us. The Romans also left much money with the Arabs, styled by the Romans the richest people in the world, 1 ause the treasures of the Parthians and Romans came into their hands. They sell the produce oftheir seas (pearls) and of their forests (odoriferous woods and incense), and buy nothing (Ibid. 32). 174 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. was a capital crime, and the law sanctioned piracy towards peopleswho had no bond of amity or alliance or contract of hospitalitywith Rome. On the seas and rivers of the Empire the governmentkept armed fleets1 to make traffic secure; the merchants werealso protected against barratry by laws borrowed from tbe expe-rience of the Rhodians,2 which decided questions of responsibilityin accidents by sea. Those who brought about a shipwreck, pil-.
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