Mnesippos Do go on and tell of something else
they did, really divine and godlike. As far as
their voyage and their journey into foreign lands
are concerned, I could show you a great many
more godlike among the merchants, particularly
the Phoenicians, who not only sailed into the
Pontos and as far as the Maiotis and the Bosporos, but to every point in Greek or barbarian wa-
These people make an annual round of
ters.


 



every cape and every peninsula, so to speak, and
late in the autumn they sail back to their own
country. To be consistent, you hold these, too,
as gods-peddlers, and perhaps fish-mongers,
though most of them be.