Res Gestae

He also showed many favours to the other cities. And he so won the good-will of the neighbouring nations, that they offered to make treaties with him, in the hope that he would be their king. Indeed, merchants flocked to him from the various provinces, for his organization was such that if anyone

wished to send consignments of gold or silver in his domain, it was deemed as good as if he were within the walls of a city.