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Berdasarkan [[Herodotus]], kayu manis tumbuh di kawasan Arab, bersama dengan bahan baku dupa lainnya seperti [[mur (resin)|resin mur]] dan [[labdanum]], dijaga oleh "[[naga|ular bersayap]]".<ref name=Herodotus>Herodotus, Book 3, sections 3.107-113.{{cite book|last1=Wheeler|first1=James Talboys|title=An Analysis and Summary of Herodotus: With a Synchronistical Table of Principal Events; Tables of Weights, Measures, Money, and Distances; an Outline of the History and Geography; and the Dates Completed from Gaisford, Baehr, Etc|date=1852|publisher=H. G. Bohn|url=https://archive.org/details/analysissummaryo00hero|page=110|quote=The incense trees are guarded by winged serpents[...] The cassia trees, which grow by a shallow lake, are guarded by fierce winged animals like bats|access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref> Selain Herodotus, [[Aristoteles]] dan penulis lainnya juga menyebut arab sebagai asal muasal kayu manis. Mereka menyebut bahwa "[[burung kayu manis]]" mengumpulkan ranting kayu manis dari pohonnya untuk membangun sarang.{{r|Herodotus|p=111|q=Cinnamon is produced in an unknown land, and large birds bring those rolls of bark which from the Phœnicians are called cinnamon}}
[[Pliny the Elder]] menyebutkan bahwa kayu manis dibawa melintasi [[semenanjung Arab]] menggunakan rakit yang tidak memiliki kemudi, layar, maupun dayung. Mereka bergerak memanfaatkan [[angin pasat]] musim dingin.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pliny the Elder|last2=Bostock|first2=J.|last3=Riley|first3=H. T.|year=1855|volume=3|title=Natural History of Pliny, book XII, The Natural History of Trees|chapter=42, Cinnamomum. Xylocinnamum|publisher=[[Henry G. Bohn]]|location=London|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof03plin|pages=137–140}}</ref> Ia juga menyebutkan kayu manis kasia sebagai [[perisa]] minuman [[anggur]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L35fAAAAMAAJ|title=Natural History|author=Pliny the Elder|date=1938|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-99433-1|page=14}}</ref> dan kisah bahwa kayu manis dikumpulkan dari sarang burung kayu manis adalah fiksi yang dibuat para pedagang untuk dapat menarik harga lebih tinggi. Namun kisah itu bertahan hingga jaman kerajaan Byzantium sampai tahun 1310.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tennent |first1=James Emerson |author1-link=James Emerson Tennent |title=Ceylon: an account of the island |date=1860 |publisher=Longman |location=London |volume=1|page=600}}</ref>
Berdasarkan Pliny the Elder, satu pon kasia dan kayu manis (pon romawi = 327 gr) dihargai 1500 [[denarii]], atau setara dengan lima puluh bulan gaji buruh ketika itu.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Natural History|volume=3|year=1855|url=https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof31855plin/|author=Pliny the Elder|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|via=Internet Archive|location=London, UK|page=140|quote=The right of regulating the sale of the cinnamon belongs solely to the king of the Gebanitæ, who opens the market for it by public proclamation. The price of it was formerly as much as a thousand denarii per pound; which was afterwards increased to half as much again, in consequence, it is said, of the forests having been set on fire by the barbarians, from motives of resentment[...]}}</ref> Buku karangan [[Diocletian]], [[Edict on Maximum Prices]] di tahun 301 masehi menyebut harga 125 denarii per pon atau setara dengan lima hari gaji buruh tani ketika itu.<ref>{{cite book|title=An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome |volume=V: Rome and Italy of the Empire |editor-last=Frank |editor-first=Tenney |last=Graser |first=E. R. |chapter=A text and translation of the Edict of Diocletian |year=1940 |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins Press]] |isbn=978-0374928483}}</ref> Kayu manis amatlah mahal sehingga jarang sekali digunakan sebagai dupa upacara pemakaman, tetapi suatu hari Kaisar [[Nero]] membakar sejumlah kayu manis setara dengan pasokan setahun kota Roma untuk pemakaman istrinya, [[Poppaea Sabina]], di tahun 65 masehi.<ref>Toussaint-Samat 2009, p. 437f.</ref>
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