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A Traveling Merchant Opens to the West the Trade and Culture of the Orient, 67 A.D.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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One of the most intriguing figures in the history of business is the traveling merchant. He was the key figure in the business life of the ancient and the mediæval town. He bought goods in one market which he carried by pack horse, camel, or ship to sell in another, thus serving as a traveling wholesaler. Here today, he was gone tomorrow; even his court of law was known as the “dusty-footed court.”

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Business History Review , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1942 , pp. 80 - 81
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1942

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1 Translated from the Greek and annotated by Wilfred H. Schoff and published by Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1912.