Theoph. Char. pp. 33, 233. Casaub. A very fine palm-tree is at present growing in one of the principal streets of Athens.—Blackwood’s Magazine, April, 1838. Footnote 693: Pollux, i. 73. Herod. i. 28, 172, 193. ii. 156. iv. 172, 183. Footnote 694: Plato de Legg. t. viii. p. 106. Bekk. Athen. xiv. 68. Footnote 695: Athen. xiv. 68. Cf. Bruyerin. de Re Cibaria, xi. 447, sqq. ----- From the grape we pass naturally to wine, which has of itself formed the subject of many treatises. It will not, therefore, be expected that we should enter into very minute details; though, if we are sparing, it will certainly not be for want of materials. D’Herbelot[696] relates an oriental tradition which attributes the invention of wine to the ancient Persian monarch Giamshid; and Bochart, with some show of ingenuity, attributes to Bacchos, the Grecian inventor and god of wine, an origin which would confound him with the founder of Babylon.[697] A very celebrated wine, called _nectar_, is said to have been produced in the neighbourhood of that city.[698] But, according to Theopompos, it was the inhabitants of Chios who first planted and cultivated the vine, and from them the knowledge was transmitted to the other Greeks.[699] ----- Footnote 696: Biliothèque Orientale, Article Giamschid. Footnote 697: Geog. Sacr. I. ii. 13. Footnote 698: Chæreas. ap. Athen. i. 58. Footnote 699: Athen. i. 47. ----- Theophrastus[700] relates that, in the territory of Heraclea, in Arcadia, there was a wine which rendered men insane and women prolific.[701] In the environs of Cerynia, in Achaia, grew a vine, the wine of which blasted the fruit of the womb, nay, the very grapes were said to possess a similar quality.[702] At Thasos were two kinds of wine, of which the one caused stupefaction, while the other was in the highest degree exhilarating.[703] The wine called anthosmias,[704] according to Phanias of Eresos, was produced by mixing one part of salt-water with fifty parts of wine, and it was considered best when made with the grapes of young vines. The comic poets are eloquent in praise of the wines of Thasos, particularly of that mixed sort, of most agreeable flavour, which was drunk in their Prytaneion. Theophrastus[705] gives the recipe for making it. They threw, he says, into the jars, a small quantity of flour kneaded with honey, the latter to impart a sweet odour to the wine, the former mildness. A similar effect was produced by mixing up hard inodorous wine with one which was oily and fragrant.[706] ----- Footnote 700: Hist. Plant. ix. 18. 10, seq. In Athenæus, instead of Heraclea, we find Heræa, i. 57. Cf. Ælian. Var. Hist. xiii. 6. Footnote 701: The same effect was attributed to the waters of a fountain flowing near a temple of Aphrodite upon Mount Hymettos.—Chandler, ii. 164. Footnote 702: Plin. Hist. Nat. xiv. 18. Footnote 703: Athen. i. 57. Footnote 704: