Maximus of Tyre, Dissertations; Alcinous, The Handbook of Platonism (Didaskalikos) (Unknown) - Page 14

men who do not know the sea, nor are they ignorant of the salt
of the shore, therefore they do not even sacrifice to the things of the sea;

But by the extremities of Egypt and the neighboring
Ethiopia, there is a place having many mines, and silver-bearing, from which much gold is gathered through the
strenuous suffering of those who work; for the earth, being by nature
black, has veins and paths of excessive
whiteness, surpassing all the shining rays; from which those who are
set over the labors of the multitude of men,
produce gold; and its nature, the metal of the
exercise of the one who makes glory [is] to separate; and the message through the
sea; and what is completed, and the sand in
part; the fire flows as it were; with which to deliberate, and the [nature]
of its own source, black color; and in its order [it] does not make nature
to be of gold and silver; and to deliberate through books, of
men those discourses, of the part thus to the gold ones
standing, something like the marvel; when water is enraged, for that which
according to the will to divide, and to these also from itself
to be; the multitude of the laws [is] not by necessity to be sacrificed
the living one alone that one, itself of it and of the gold
from the second book
[mines]; and by necessity in this part death
they wish for the language of the will; and the other parts of
the care; and adds need to those who are alien; and having
prepared until dividing the things of the men, toward the excess
of the construction; and the being about to, and again and the need
of all great things of which the crown has imparted into which they dare;
and the men say the courage; and in time
the best things have happened to those hunting the most necessary
things; from these many beside the customs of the
habits upon ten gold-mines; and those in these of them; for great [is] the
another on the elephant-eaters
manifest [thing] indeed; and further from which those who have been subjugated toward the
meadow, they themselves devising in the same book, and
the agreement of the danger to be kept safe the justice [they] prepared-