ABSTRACT
ONE should take careful note of a remarkable experience in Bk XIII of Strabo, undergone by traders and soldiers whose occupation was pursued either at sea or ashore. It concerns certain Corycaeans, who devised a way of laying an ambush, new perhaps in that age but now thoroughly familiar and commonplace. Men scattered about the harbours come up close to merchants who have put in to land (as traitors do nowadays when they approach fighting-men), trying to overhear what their cargo is, where they are bound for, or what campaign they are travelling to.
