The Histories · 3.6

And one thing I shall tell of, which few of those who go in ships to Egypt have observed, and it is this:—into Egypt from all parts of Hellas and also from Phenicia are brought twice every year earthenware jars full of wine, and yet it may almost be said that you cannot see there one single empty wine-jar.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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