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mercatores: these were traders or peddlers, mostly from the seaport of Massilia; they traveled with pack-horses, mules, and wagons. A very common article of traffic, as with our Indian traders, was intoxicating drinks, — wines from the southern coast; which, especially, as Caesar says, "tend to debauch the character." These people, it is said, would give the traders a boy for a jar of wine. — commeant: this verb means, especially, to go back and forth in the way of traffic. The main line of trade lay across the country, by the river Liger (Loire). — ea: object of important, referring to the luxuries of civilization.


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