A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . , and the lands on the Garonne, were thoroughlyRomanized; while farther north the process was less complete. Lyons,under the Antonines, counted a population of 250,000 souls. Tradeand industries flourished, chief among them the manufacture of glass,paper, and cloth. The corporation of navigators of the Rhone andthe Saone stood in high esteem. The wine industry was important,though the cultivation of the vine extended up the Rhone only afterthe middle of the first century of the empire; and not till Probus
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . , and the lands on the Garonne, were thoroughlyRomanized; while farther north the process was less complete. Lyons,under the Antonines, counted a population of 250,000 souls. Tradeand industries flourished, chief among them the manufacture of glass,paper, and cloth. The corporation of navigators of the Rhone andthe Saone stood in high esteem. The wine industry was important,though the cultivation of the vine extended up the Rhone only afterthe middle of the first century of the empire; and not till Probus didit spread to the Garonne, Loire, Seine, and Moselle. The ancient cityof jNIassilia, which still held fast to its Greek language in the third cen- Ecuiiiius of Roinau (•ivili/.ati<m in fJaul arc illustrated by Fij^s. 57-(j3. 157 158 THE ANCIENT WORLD IN THE SECOND CENTURY. tury, with its commerce, its ship-building, its manufacture of arms,was at the same time a seat of learning — where the sons of the Celticnobility studied rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine, and from which.
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