Dioscor. i. 25. In Venetian times the environs of Naupactos were thought to produce the best wines of all Greece. Coronelli, Mem. de la Morée, p. 231. Footnote 1926: Dioscor. iv. 151. Footnote 1927: Μελεαγρίδες. Athen. xiv. 70. Suid. t. ii. p. 122. a. Aristot. Hist. Animal. vi. 2. Footnote 1928: Virg. Georg. ii. 438. Plin. Nat. Hist. xiv. 25. Footnote 1929: Poll. i. 149. Footnote 1930: Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 56. Rondelet. i. 48. Aristot. Hist. Animal. v. 15. Footnote 1931: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 30. ----- The productions which Macedonia and Thrace contributed to the commerce of the ancient world were numerous, and, in many cases, of the highest value; as, for example, gold and silver,[1932] of which there were mines[1933] both in Mount Pangæos,[1934] Scapte Hyle,[1935] and several other places along the coast. History makes particular mention of those which existed in the neighbourhood of Crenides,[1936] afterwards Philippi, contending for which the Athenian general, Sophanes, lost his life in a battle with the Edonians.[1937] In the country of the Pœonians the husbandmen, cultivating the fields, often turned up bits of virgin gold with the plough. To these we may add ship timber, pitch, and tar,[1938] upon which the Athenians in the later ages of the republic, chiefly depended for the construction of their navies, with rich and fragrant wines, such as those of Mendè and Maronea.[1939] ----- Footnote 1932: Lucian, de Sacrif. § 11. Id. Fugitiv. § 24. Id. Icaromenip. § 18. Plin. Nat. Hist., xxxiii. 21. vii. 57. Herod. vii. 112. ix. 75. Xenoph. Hellen. v. 2. 12. Athen. ii. 16. Strab. vii. frag. 17. t. ii. p. 133. Pausan. i. 29. Footnote 1933: The mines in the neighbourhood of lake Prasias, produced, in the time of Alexander, son of Amyntas, a talent of silver a day. Herodot. v. 17. Footnote 1934: Xenoph. Hellen. v. 2. 17. Plin. vii. 57. Footnote 1935: These mines of Scapte Hyle produced to the Thasians, when they possessed a power on the continent, a revenue of eighty talents a year. Herodot. vi. 46. Appian. Bell. Civil. iv. 106. Footnote 1936: Diodor. Sicul. xvi. 8. Footnote 1937: Herodot. ix. 75. Meurs. Lection. Att. vi. 31. Footnote 1938: Æschin. adv. Timarch. § 6. Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 1. 4. Thucyd. iv. 108. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 2. 1. The wood grown on the northern slopes of mountains was esteemed toughest, and, therefore, best suited for oars. Id. Hist. Plant. iv. 1. 4. Footnote 1939: Athen. i. 47. Iorio, Storia del Commercio, t. iv. l. ii. c. iii. p. 235. Hom. Odyss. ix. 197. Steph. de Urb. v. Μένδη, p. 550. b. In the vineyards of Mendè the husbandmen used to sprinkle the grape clusters with the juice of the wild cucumber, which communicated to the wine a medicinal quality. Athen. i. 53. -----