Date: 1828
In what manner the water was withdrawn from the mines, we are not informed ; it is however probable that the Greeks made use of the same artificial means as the Romans72.  The removal of the ore appears to have been performed partly by machines and partly by men, as was the case in Egypt and Spain, in which latter country, the younger slaves brought the ore through the adits to the surface of the soil : whether however the miners in Attica used leather bags for this purpose, and were on that account called bag-carriers (%vXaxo<pogoi), is, to say the least, uncertain ; for according to the grammarians these bags contained their food73.  The stamping of the ore at the foundries 69 Casaubon ad Strab.