But these figs are as far superior to the ordinary run of figs which are grown in other places as the meat of the wild boar is superior to that of all other animals of the swine tribe which are not wild. 10. The λευκερινεὸς is a kind of fig-tree; and perhaps it is that kind which produces the white figs; Hermippus mentions it in his Iambics, in these terms-- There are besides the Leucerinean figs. And the figs called ἐρινεοὶ, or ἐρινοῖ, are mentioned by Euripides in his "Sciron"-- Or else to fasten him on the erinean boughs. And Epicharmus says, in his Sphinx,-- But these are not like the erinean figs. And Sophocles, in his play entitled "The Wedding of Helen," by a sort of metaphor, calls the fruit itself by the name of the tree; saying-- A ripe ἐρινὸς is a useless thing For food, and yet you ripen others by Your conversation. And he uses the masculine gender here, saying πέπων ἔρινος, instead of πέπον ἔρινον. Alexis also says in his "Caldron"-- And why now need we speak of people who Sell every day their figs in close pack'd baskets, And constantly do place those figs below Which are hard and bad; but on top they range The ripe and beautiful fruit. And then a comrade, As if he'd bought the basket, gives the price; The seller, putting in his mouth the coin, Sells wild figs (ἔρινα) while he swears he's selling good ones. Now the tree, the wild fig, from which the fruit meant by the term ἔρινα comes, is called ἐρινὸς, being a masculine noun. Strattis says, in his Troilus-- Have you not perceived a wild fig-tree near her? And Homer says-- There stands a large wild fig-tree flourishing with leaves. And Amerias says, that the figs on the wild fig-trees are called ἐρίνακαι. 11. Hermonax, in his book on the Cretan Languages, gives a catalogue of the different kinds of figs, and speaks of some as ἁμάδεα and as νικύλεα; and Philemon, in his book on Attic Dialects, says, that some figs are called royals, from which also the dried figs are called βασιλίδες, or royal; stating besides, that the ripe figs are called κόλυτρα. Seleucus, too, in his Book on Dialects, says that there is a fruit called γλυκυσίδη being exceedingly like a fig in shape: and that women guard against eating them, because of their evil effects; as also Plato the comic writer says, in his Cleophon. And Pamphilus says, that the winter figs are called Cydonæa by the Achæans, saying, that Aristophanes said the very same thing in his Lacedæmonian Dialects. Hermippus, in his Soldiers, says that there is a kind of fig called Coracean, using these words-- Either Phibalean figs, or Coracean.