Fragm. Γεωργ. iv. t. ii. p. 268. Bekk. Footnote 669: Athen. iii. 7. Footnote 670: See Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 707. ----- According to the ancients, there were certain sorts of fig-trees that bore twice, thrice, and even four times, in the year. Sosibios, the Laconian, attributing the discovery of the fig to Bacchos, observes, that for this reason the god was, at Sparta, worshiped under the name of _Sukites_. Andriscos, however, and Agasthenes, relate that this divinity obtained the name of Meilichios, “the gracious,” among the Naxians because he taught them the use of figs. To eat figs at noon was regarded as unwholesome; and they were at all times supposed to be highly prejudicial to the voice, for which reason singers should carefully eschew them.[671] ----- Footnote 671: Athen. iii. 19. ----- The apples of Delphi enjoyed great celebrity, and probably, therefore, were mild, since these were thought superior, or at least more wholesome, than sharp ones. Quinces they esteemed still more salubrious than apples, and, during certain public rejoicings, this fruit, handfuls of myrtle-leaves, crowns of roses and violets, were cast before the cars of their princes and other great men.[672] The Greeks loved to connect something of the marvellous with whatever they admired. To the quince they attributed the honour of being a powerful antidote, observing that even the Phariac poison, though of extremely rapid operation, lost its virulence if poured into any vessel which had held quinces and retained their odour.[673] According to Hermon, in his Cretic Glossaries, the quince was called Kodumala, in Crete. Sidoüs, a village of Corinthia, was famous for its fine apples; and even Corinth itself, the “windy Ephyrè” of Homer, produced them in great perfection. “O where is the maiden, sweeter far Than the ruddy fruits of Ephyrè are? When the winds of summer have o’er them blown, And their cheeks with autumn’s gold have been strown!”[674] ----- Footnote 672: Stesich. ap. Athen. iii. 20. Footnote 673: Athen. iii. 21. Footnote 674: Antigonos Carystios, ap. Athen. iii. 22. -----