Footnote 1901: Id. v. 2. 12. Footnote 1902: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxi. 76. Footnote 1903: Ruf. Frag. p. 22, ap. Schneid. ad Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 10. 2. Dioscor. iv. 150. Chandler, ii. 276. Polyænus, vi. 13. Footnote 1904: Athen. iii. 6. Footnote 1905: Dioscor. iv. 32. The reed-agrostis, which grew by the wayside in Babylonia, was said to be fatal to the cattle which fed on it. Id. iv. 31. Footnote 1906: Chandler, ii. 228. Steph. de Urb. p. 238. c. Οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἐνταῦθα πλέον ὑμίσεις κόχλων ἐς βαφὴν πορφύρας εἰσὶν ἁλιεῖς Pausan. x. 37. 3. Footnote 1907: Chandler, ii. 279. Footnote 1908: Pausan. x. 36. 1. ----- The principal articles which Thessaly supplied to commerce were shoes,[1909] easy chairs, slaves, branded on the forehead, and usually shipped at Pagasæ,[1910] horses,[1911] cattle, wheat,[1912] chironean all-heal,[1913] the best black hellebore,[1914] the nymphæa nelumbo from the waters of the Peneios,[1915] gypsum,[1916] poisonous water, like that of Nonacris,[1917] found near Tempè, and medicinal chalk.[1918] ----- Footnote 1909: Steph. Byzant. de Urb. v. Θεσσαλία. p. 394. a. Poll. vii. 89. Footnote 1910: Athen. i. 49. 50. Footnote 1911: Oppian. Cyneg. i. 171. Strab. viii. 8. t. ii. p. 226. Footnote 1912: Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 14. Footnote 1913: Πανάκες Χειρώνιων. Dioscor. iii. 57. Footnote 1914: Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 10. 2, with the note of Schneider. Footnote 1915: Dioscor. iii. 149. The root of this plant, which as has above been seen was eaten in Greece, forms to this day an article of food among the Chinese. The poor even eat it raw, in which case it is said to be not very palateable. Osbeck, Voyage to China, i. 310. Footnote 1916: Theoph. de Lapid. § 64. Footnote 1917: Senec. Quæst. Nat. iii. 25, who gives as the reason, that the water springs from iron or copper mines. Footnote 1918: Theoph. de Lapid. § 64. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 57. ----- From Epeiros were obtained wheat,[1919] gypsum, shepherds’ dogs,[1920] a large superior sort of round apple,[1921] excellent horses, a breed of oxen remarkable for their size,[1922] magnificent oak timber,[1923] and acorns in large quantities for the planting of forests in other parts of Greece;[1924] Ætolia, saffron,[1925] black hellebore,[1926] and guinea-fowls,[1927] or, perhaps, wild turkeys, of which it was the original country; Narycia, in the territories of the Epicnemidian Locrians, tar;[1928] Acarnania, slings,[1929] mother of pearl,[1930] and gold and silver-coloured pyrites.[1931] ----- Footnote 1919: Lycurg. cont. Leochar. § 8. Footnote 1920: Aristot. Hist. Animal. ix. 1. Poll. v. 39. Ælian. de Nat. Animal. iii. 2. Footnote 1921: Dioscor. i. 162. Plin. Nat. Hist. xv. 15. Footnote 1922: Plin. Nat. Hist. viii. 70. Footnote 1923: Theoph. Hist. Plant. ii. 2. 6. Footnote 1924: Palmer. Descrip. Græc. Antiq. p. 222. Footnote 1925: