. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ^ ; and as it wasascertained that they could notdistinguish false coin from true,the masters of the Roman mintcoined for exportation plateddenarii, which have been foundin great quantities on the coastof Malabar, while nearly allcoin intended for circulation withinthe Empire was of standard operation was as lucrativeas it was disreputable.^ Africa still felt the disasterscaused by the civil war. Theterritory of Carthage, however,was one of the granaries of Rome ;and that city, now rising fr
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ^ ; and as it wasascertained that they could notdistinguish false coin from true,the masters of the Roman mintcoined for exportation plateddenarii, which have been foundin great quantities on the coastof Malabar, while nearly allcoin intended for circulation withinthe Empire was of standard operation was as lucrativeas it was disreputable.^ Africa still felt the disasterscaused by the civil war. Theterritory of Carthage, however,was one of the granaries of Rome ;and that city, now rising fromits ruins, had begun to resumeits earlier relations with the interior of Africa. The route openedby Hanno into Senegal and Guinea was doubtless now closed ;but it is by no means certain that the six towns founded bythat general beyond the Pillars of Hercules had already disappeared,for it was not long before this that Sertorius, influenced by thereports of many ship-masters, had proposed to his soldiers to goand find a home in the Fortunate Islands. Relations with the. VASE IN FOUM OF A XEGROS HEAD. 1 These vases, of wliich Propertius (IV. v. 26) savs, Murreaquc in Parthis pocula codafocis, were probably Chinese porcelain, and brought a great price (Pliny, ilnd. .xxxvii. 7). ^ Peutingers map marks near two cities on the coast of JIalabar a Templum Augustt,which gives reason to believe a trading port existed there. It was customary to have inall merchant towns a chamber of commerce. The language used in Eastern traffic was the(Ireek, which, Philostratus says, was spoken by the princes of the north of India and by alleducated persons. Seneca (Cons, ad Ilelv. G) and Plutarch (The Fortune of Alexander) con-firm this testimony. Found near Accrra, Notizie degli scavi di andc/iità, lb7S, tav. .>. No. 8. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 227 Canaries still continued. The gold dust which Roman tradersfound in Mauretania was more probably brought thither by wayof the sea
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