EMPO´RIA
EMPO´RIA (
τὰ Ἐμπορεῖα),was at first the name of a number of seaport towns, Phoenician and Carthaginian settlements, on the shores of the Lesser Syrtis; afterwards of the district in which those towns lay. (
Plb. 1.82.6,
3.23.2, Exc. Leg. 18; Appian,
App. Pun. 72;
Liv. 29.25,
34.62: see further
AFRICA p. 68b., and
BYZACIUM)
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