The stock of a respectable wine-merchant must have been peculiarly rich and varied,[495] consisting of the Anthosmias, a wine of delicious fragrance; the Lesbian,[496] a favourite wine of Alcibiades;[497] the Pramnian,[498] a strong rough wine, celebrated by Homer;[499] the Lemnian, quaffed by the heroes before Troy;[500] the Chian, light and delicate;[501] the Kapnian, from Beneventum in Italy,[502] a sharp red wine which made the eyes water like smoke;[503] the Mesogeites, from Mount Tmolos,[504] which, however delicious might be its taste, gave those who drank it the head-ache; the Phygelites, from Ephesos, equal to that of Lesbos; those of Cos and Clazomenè, pleasant when new, but which would not keep because mixed with sea-water; the Cydonian;[505] the Maronæan,[506] of great strength; the Mendæan;[507] the Mareotic;[508] the Port; and the Thasian, which may be regarded as the flower of the whole for excellence and celebrity.[509] ----- Footnote 495: The Greeks gave fanciful names to their wines and their cups; but the English have been still more fanciful in the names of their ales. See Bent. Dissert. on Phalaris, i. pref. xxi. Footnote 496: Xen. Hellen. vi. 6. 6. Athen. i. 24. Footnote 497: Athen. vii. 9. i. 55. Plut. Alcib. § 12. Footnote 498: Athen. i. 55. Footnote 499: Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 107. Etym. Mag. 683. 30, seq. Footnote 500: Il. η. 467, sqq. Footnote 501: Poll. vi. 15. x. 72. Footnote 502: Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 151; and Thurian. Nub. 331. Footnote 503: Suid. v. Καπν. t. i. p. 1370. Footnote 504: Dioscor. v. 10. Footnote 505: “The district of Cydonia must have been celebrated for its wine in ancient times, for we find on many of its coins a bunch of grapes, or the head of Dionysos. Some of them also exhibit a female head adorned with a chaplet of vine-leaves. I found a beautiful silver coin of Cydonia in the possession of the interpreter of the French Consulate, and the female head seen on its obverse was thus ornamented.” Pashley, Travels in Crete, vol. i. p. 23. Footnote 506: Athen. i. 95, seq. Footnote 507: Id. viii. 67. Footnote 508: Id. i. 25. Footnote 509: Aristoph. Lysist. 196. Athen. x. 37. i. 24. Poll. vi. 15. -----