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deputed to apply for an abatement of the tribute, for they were required to pay 150 drachmae, when it was with difficulty they could pay 100.

Aratus, ^note in his Details, intimates how poor they were; "O Latona, thou art shortly going to pass by me [an insignificant is- land] like to the iron-bound Pholegandrus, or to unhappy Gyarus. 4

Although Delos ^note was so famous, yet it became still more so, and flourished after the destruction of Corinth by the Romans. ^note For the merchants resorted thither, induced by the immunities of the temple, and the convenience of its harbour. It lies favourably ^note for those who are sailing from Italy and Greece to Asia. The general festival held there serves the purposes of commerce, and the Romans particularly frequented it even before the destruction of Corinth. ^note The Athenians, after having taken the island, paid equal attention to the affairs both of religion and of commerce. But the generals ^note of Mithridates, and the tyrant, ^note who had occasioned the detection of (Athens from the Romans), ravaged it entirely. The Romans received the island in a desolate state on the departure of the king to his own country; and it has continued in an impoverished condition to the present time. ^note The Athenians are now in possession of it. 5

Rheneia ^note is a small desert island 4 stadia from Delos, where are the sepulchral monuments of the Delians. For it is not permitted to bury the dead in Delos, nor to burn a