From Corsica, timber for ship building; from Sardinia, a little corn and cattle; from Sicily, besides corn,—­wine, honey, salt, saffron, cheese, cattle, pigeons, corals, and a species of emerald.  Cloth, but whether linen or cotton is uncertain, was imported from Malta; honey, from Attica.  Lacedemon supplied green marble, and the dye of the purple shell-fish.  From the Grecian islands, there were imported Parian marble, the earthenware of Samos, the vermilion of Lemnos, and other articles, principally of luxury.  Thrace supplied salted tunnies, the produce of the Euxine Sea, besides corn.  The finest wool was imported from Colchis, and also hemp, flax, pitch, and fine linens:  these goods, as well as articles brought overland from India, were shipped from the port of Phasis.  The best cheese used at Rome, was imported from Bithynia.  Phrygia supplied a stone like alabaster, and the country near Laodicea, wool of excellent quality, some of which was of a deep black colour.  The wine drank at Rome, was principally the produce of Italy; the best foreign wine, was imported from Ionia.  Woollen goods, dyed with Tyrian purple, were imported from Miletus, in Caria.  An inferior species of diamond, copper, resin, and sweet oil were imported from Cyprus.  Cedar, gums, balsam, and alabaster, were supplied by Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine.  Glass was imported from Sidon, as well as embroidery and purple dye, and several kinds of fish, from Tyre.  The goods that were brought from India, by the route of Palmyra, were shipped for Rome, from the ports of Syria.  Egypt, besides corn, supplied flax, fine linen, ointments, marble, alabaster, salt, alum, gums, paper, cotton goods, some of which, as well as of their linens, seem to have been coloured or printed, glass ware, &c.  The honey lotus, the lotus, or nymphaea of Egypt, the stalk of which contained a sweet substance, which was considered as a luxury by the Egyptians, and used as bread, was sometimes carried to Rome; it was also used as provision for mariners.  Alexandria was the port from which all the produce and manufactories of Egypt, as well as all the ports which passed through this country from India, were shipped.  In consequence of its becoming the seat of the Roman government in Egypt, of the protection which it thus received, and of its commerce being greatly extended by the increased wealth and luxury of Rome, its extent and population were greatly augmented; according to Diodorus Siculus, in the time of Augustus, from whose reign it became the greatest emporium of the world, it contained 300,000 free people.

That part of Africa which was formerly possessed by the Carthaginians, besides corn, sent to Rome, honey, drugs, marble, the eggs and feathers of the ostrich, ostriches, elephants, and lions; the last for the amphitheatre.  From Mauritania, there were exported to the capital, timber of a fine grain and excellent quality, the exact nature of which is not known; this was sold at an enormous rate, and used principally for making very large tables.