Ἐπεισέρχεται δὲ διὰ μέγεθος τῆς πόλεως ἐκ πάσης γῆς τὰ πάντα· καὶ ξυμβαίνει ἡμῖν μηδὲν οἰκειότερα τῇ ἀπολαύσει τὰ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθὰ γιγνόμενα καρποῦσθαι, ἢ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἄνθρώπων. Thucyd. ii. 38. Footnote 1791: Athen. iii. 101. Footnote 1792: Id. vii. 45. Footnote 1793: Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 760. Dioscor. v. 126. Footnote 1794: As for instance radishes, (Athen. vii. 23,) and cucumbers. (Schol. Aristoph. Pac. 966. Acharn. 494.) I know not whether the samphire (κρίθμον) now found growing among the Saronian rocks (Chandler, ii. 225) entered into the list of the exports of Megara, though it was used both as a medicine and as a vegetable. Dioscor. ii. 157. Footnote 1795: Aristoph. Acharn. 519, seq. Footnote 1796: Dioscor. iv. 79. Footnote 1797: Athen. i. 50. Footnote 1798: Xenoph. Memor. ii. 7. 6. Footnote 1799: Diog. Laert. vi. 2. 41. Footnote 1800: Athen. x. 56. Pausan. i. 44. 4. Steph. De Urb. p. 54. a. ----- From the various divisions of the Peloponnesos, which we may here regard as one country, several useful commodities were exported. In the matter of corn these divisions of Greece were alternately exporters and importers according, probably, to the fluctuations of the season or peculiar exigencies created by the accidents of peace or war.[1801] They perpetually, however, supplied their neighbours with cheese and wine, and various other articles of use or luxury. ----- Footnote 1801: See above, Book vi. chap. 9. ----- The poet Alcman celebrates a fragrant wine produced in the vicinity of Sparta,[1802] but it is nowhere stated whether it was exported or not. The little state of Phlius produced likewise a superior wine which was esteemed at Athens.[1803] Laconia exported cheese, which, being shipped at Gythium,[1804] was commonly supposed to be made at that place. The cheese of Tromileia in Achaia enjoyed as great a reputation throughout Greece, as the Parmasan in modern Europe. It was remarkable for the extreme delicacy of its flavour, and was made from goat’s milk with the juice of the fig-tree instead of rennet.[1805] Sicyon carried on a considerable trade in salted conger.[1806] ----- Footnote 1802: Athen. i. 57. Footnote 1803: Id. i. 49. Footnote 1804: Lucian. Dial. Meret. § 14. Footnote 1805: Athen. xiv. 76. Eurip. Cyclop. 136. Footnote 1806: Athen. vii. 31. i. 49. ----- Several medicinal plants were obtained from this part of Greece, as liquorice vetch[1807] found on the tops of lofty mountains where the snows lay unmelted during a considerable portion of the year. The canton which most abounded in this plant seems to have been the country round Pheneon in Arcadia. ----- Footnote 1807: Ἀστράγαλος, Dioscor. iv. 62. “Peut-on rien voir de plus beau, en fait de plantes, qu’un Astragale de deux pieds de haut, chargé de fleurs depuis le bas jusques à l’extremité de ses tiges?” Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, t. iii. p. 101. -----