From the gardens at the foot of Mount Pangæos the rose of a hundred leaves appears to have been propagated throughout Greece.[1940] Rue, the leaves and seeds of which were much used in ancient medicine,[1941] abounded in a certain district of Macedonia, but does not appear to have been introduced into commerce because it was esteemed a poison, and flourished in a district greatly infested with vipers. The rose-root,[1942] exported from Macedonia, resembled that of the costus in form, and diffused an odour analogous to the perfume of the rose. It was applied with oil of roses to remove the head-ache. ----- Footnote 1940: Theoph. Hist. Plant. vi. 6. 4. The Greek fable on the birth of the rose is familiar to every reader, but it may not, perhaps, be so well known, that the Mahommedans believe it to have sprung from the sweat of their prophet: “Ut veteres rosam ex sanguine Veneris, sic isti (Turcæ) ex sudore Mahumetis natam sibi persuaserint.” Busbeq. Epist. i. p. 51. Footnote 1941: Dioscor. iii. 52. From a passage in Polyænus it would appear, that Thrace carried on habitually a trade with the neighbouring countries in hay and straw. Stratagem. iii. 15. Footnote 1942: Dioscor. iv. 45. ----- Among the other exports of Thrace and Macedonia were wine flavoured with wormwood,[1943] truffles,[1944] beans from about Philippi,[1945] heraclean all-heal,[1946] the juice of which was called opopanax, odoriferous roots some of which exhaled the perfume of spikenard,[1947] the meon,[1948] alum,[1949] corn,[1950] cheese,[1951] salt-fish,[1952] mullets from Abdera,[1953] delcani from the lake Delcon,[1954] eels from the Strymon,[1955] skates from Ænia,[1956] enormous horns of wild bulls,[1957] timber for ships[1958] and oars,[1959] chrysocolla,[1960] alum, reddle, jet from the neighbourhood of Bena,[1961] dark carbuncles,[1962] and earths for preserving corn found near Olynthos.[1963] ----- Footnote 1943: Dioscor. iii. 26. Footnote 1944: Athen. ii. 20. Theoph. Hist. Plant. i. 6. 13. Footnote 1945: Theoph. Hist. Plant. viii. 8. 6. Footnote 1946: Dioscor. iii. 55. Footnote 1947: Theoph. Hist. Plant. ix. 7. 3. Dioscor. i. 1. Footnote 1948: Dioscor. i. 3. Footnote 1949: Id. v. 123. Footnote 1950: Lys. in Diogit. § 5. Bœckh. Pub. Econ. of Athens, i. 107. Footnote 1951: Athen. ii. 68. Footnote 1952: Id. vii. 45. Footnote 1953: Id. vii. 77. Footnote 1954: Id. iii. 87. Footnote 1955: Id. vii. 53. Footnote 1956: Id. vii. 25. Footnote 1957: Herod. vii. 126. Spanh. ad Callim. in Dian. 157. Plin. Nat. Hist. viii. 16. Footnote 1958: Xenoph. Hellen. vi. 1. 4. Footnote 1959: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 1. 4. Footnote 1960: Dioscor. v. 123. 104. Beckmann, Hist. of Inventions, i. 292. Footnote 1961: Theoph. de Lapid. § 15. Footnote 1962: Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 25. Footnote 1963: Theoph. Hist. Plant. viii. 10. 7. -----