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[5] for since Libya at that time was not yet planted in fruit-trees,1 the inhabitants of the territory belonging to Acragas took in exchange for their products the wealth of Libya and accumulated fortunes of unbelievable size. Of this wealth there remain among them many evidences, which it will not be foreign to our purpose to discuss briefly.

1 But cp. Book 4.17.4 where we are told that Heracles planted much of Libya in vineyards and olive orchards.

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