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Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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Metal Size Weight<br />

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7-<br />

8-7<br />

5-<br />

5+<br />

Sh<br />

210-8<br />

21.5-6<br />

81-0<br />

ASIA. 35<br />

buildings, and the numerous artificial heights, still extant in the naturally fertile plains and districts,<br />

where little better than desolation now reigns. We learn from Strabo, Plutarch, and Pausauias that<br />

in the same ages, when Syria was so flourishing and populous, Greece was almost as much fallen<br />

from its ancient state as Syria now is. Strabo, in particular, treating <strong>of</strong> Arcadia, says that the<br />

numerous cities <strong>of</strong> which Pausanias afterwards described the ruins, had already perished from the<br />

effects <strong>of</strong> war (virb rdv iroXifiuv i^

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