Athen. iii. 22. Geopon. x. 3. 6. Footnote 1844: Εὐαυξεστάτην δὲ τὴν Κορινθίαν (ῥαφανίδα), ἣ καὶ τὴν ῥίζαν ἔχει γυμνήν· ὠθεῖται γὰρ εἰς τὸ ἄνω, καὶ οὐχ ὡς αἱ ἄλλαι κάτω. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vii. 4. 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. xix. 25. ----- Among the productions which Laconia[1845] supplied to commerce were a bearded and somewhat light wheat,[1846] cheese, rathe figs,[1847] cabbage, lettuces, cucumbers,[1848] which required much watering, the euphorbia, hemlock, second in virtue to that of Susa,[1849] clouded canes,[1850] beautiful green marbles,[1851] hones and emeralds from Mount Taygetos.[1852] The dogs of Sparta were highly prized by the rest of Greece,[1853] and exported largely for the chace; according to Shakespeare, as early as the age of Theseus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew’d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed and dew-lap’d like Thessalian bulls, Slow in pursuit, but match’d in mouths like bell Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never hollow’d to, nor cheer’d with horn In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. ----- Footnote 1845: Cf. Huet, Hist. of Commerce, p. 47. Goguet, Orig. des Loix, v. 309. Footnote 1846: Plin. Nat. Hist. xviii. 20. Cf. Xenoph. iii. 4. 3. Footnote 1847: Id. xvi. 49. Footnote 1848: Id. xix. 23. 38. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vii. 4. 6. Footnote 1849: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxv. 95. Schol. Aristoph. Concion. 404. Footnote 1850: Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 174. Plin. Nat. Hist. xvi. 66. Footnote 1851: Pausan. ii. 3. 5. iii. 21. 4. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 11. Tibull. Eleg. l. iii. el. 3. v. 13, seq. The marble of Tænaros was of a yellow colour. Sext. Empir. Hypot. p. 26. Cf. Winkel. Hist. de l’Art, i. 40. Footnote 1852: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 47. xxxvii. 18. Douglas, Essay on the Modern Greeks, p. 167. Footnote 1853: Athen. i. 49. Plin. Nat. Hist. x. 83. Pollux. v. 37. Aristot. Hist. Animal. viii. 28. Spanh. Observ. in Callim. in Dian. 94, t. ii. p. 196. ----- In addition to the above, Sparta exported cothons,[1854] a species of fictile cups of a dusky brown, and so small as to have been conveniently carried in the long-necked wicker baskets which served the soldiers of Greece in lieu of a knapsack. It had one handle, and the rim projecting inwards, kept back the grosser particles of mud contained in the water, or rather, perhaps, deceived the eye by its hue. It was, moreover, the common drinking vessel of sailors on board ship.[1855] The manufacture of these cups formed a distinct branch of business, the individuals engaged in which were called cothon-makers,[1856] to distinguish them from ordinary potters. ----- Footnote 1854: Suid. v. κώθων et κώθωνες, t. i. p. 1510. a. b. Footnote 1855: