Sibthorp, Flora Græca. tab. 29. Dioscor. i. 10. Footnote 1763: Dioscor. iv. 79. According to Plutarch, however, it was not a common plant; for speaking of a prodigy which happened during the misfortunes of the republic, under the reign of Antigonos, he says: περὶ δὲ τοὺς βωμοὺς τοὺς ἐκείνων ἐξήνθησεν ἡ γῆ κύκλω πολὺ κώνειον, ἄλλως μηδὲ τῆς χώραι πολλαχοῦ φυόμενον. Vit. Demet. § 12. Footnote 1764: Dioscor. iii 48. Damogeron, ap. Geopon. vii. 13. 4. Pollux. vi. 106. Footnote 1765: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxiv. 4. ----- The Athenian pottery,[1766] being the most tasteful and beautiful known to the ancient world, was consequently in great request and exported in immense quantities to all the countries on the shores of the Mediterranean.[1767] At one time, however, the people of Ægina and Argos, partly out of resentment,[1768] and partly to encourage some less costly manufacture of their own, prohibited its introduction; while the people of Aulis,[1769] Samos,[1770] and Rhodes,[1771] became, in this branch of industry, the rivals of the Athenians, whom they endeavoured to undersell by producing an inferior article.[1772] ----- Footnote 1766: Schol. Aristoph. Lysist. 2. Potters, notwithstanding the utility of their calling, appear to have been assailed by many a joke among the Athenians, who sometimes sarcastically denominated them Prometheuses. Καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι τοὺς χυτρέας, καὶ ἰπνοποιοὺς, καὶ πάντας, ὅσοι πυλουργοὶ, Προμηθέας ἀπεκάλουν, επισκώπτοντες ἐς τὸν πηλὸν, καὶ τὴν ἐν πυρὶ οἶμαι τῶν σκευῶν ὄπτησιν. Lucian. Prometh. 2. Cf. Chandler, ii. 166. Footnote 1767: Athen. i. 49. Footnote 1768: Herod. v. 88. Athen. xi. 107. Poll. vi. 100. Steph. Byzant. v. Αἰγιναι. p. 53. a.—v. Γάζα. p. 257. a. Footnote 1769: Pausan. ix. 19. 8. Footnote 1770: Theoph. De Lapid. § 63. “On faisoit autrefois d’excellente poterie à Samos, et c’êtoit peut-être avec la terre de Bavonda.” Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, t. ii. p. 112. Footnote 1771: Athen. xi. 11. 95. 101. 108. Footnote 1772: The inferiority of the Samian pottery may be inferred from the following passage of Cicero: “Ille, homo eruditissimus, ac Stoicus, stravit pelliculis hœdinis lectulos Punicanos, et exposuit vasa Samia: quasi verò esset Diogenes Cynicus mortuus, et non divini hominis Africani mors honestaretur.” Pro Muren. 36. Cf. Plin. xxxv. 46. ----- Among the other exports of Athens we find enumerated soft fine wool,[1773] linen and woollen cloths,[1774] slippers,[1775] beds, chests, books,[1776] wine,[1777] Sphettian vinegar,[1778] sweetmeats,[1779] glaucisci,[1780] anchovies,[1781] sheep,[1782] live fowls,[1783] Hymettian[1784] and Pentelic[1785] marbles, quicksilver,[1786] ochre,[1787] and cinnabar.[1788] ----- Footnote 1773: Athen. v. 60. Footnote 1774: Thucyd. i. 6. Footnote 1775: Lucian. Rhet. Præcept. § 15. Footnote 1776: Xenoph. Anab. vii. 5. 14. Footnote 1777: