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CNIDUS.
by Cicero, who has attested the importance of the city at that period. Probably however it did
not suffer much injury on this occasion, for among the temples of Apollo which Plutarch enu-
merates, as having been plundered and injured by the pirates, that of the Triopian deity is not
named.*
The Cnidian territory was noted among the ancients for the excellence of several of its natural
productions. Its wines were considered among the best in Asiatic Greece ;t the most cele-
brated was that called protropost because it was made of the liquor collected from the grapes
under the action of their own weight previously to artificial pressure; and which in the
ensuing summer was exposed for forty days to the sun.§ Another esculent production of this
peninsula was the tree called by the Ionians ke^ov'ux. || The name as well as the description which
Theophrastus has given of this tree leaves no doubt of its having been a variety of the Ceratonia
Siliqua, differing only from the Khanib of the Levant in bearing a white instead of a purple blos-
som. The Cnidia was noted also for its onions, which were said to be less caustic than any others.!
The colocynth, a gourd which in some places was named the gikuti ' IvSixri, and in others omua.
liKocDviz, was at Cnidus simply called'IvhK\, by which name it was distinguished from the com-
mon aixvz** The vinegar of Cnidus had no rival in reputation, but that of Egypt.-H-
The coccum or granum Cnidium, sometimes called linum Cnidium, from some supposed re-
semblance to flax, was employed only as a medicine. Its true name was Xaiiotikiau, Chamelaea
or Thymelaea. The first of these is still preserved in the slightly corrupted form of yoLiudlw.
According to Sibthorp it is the Carthamus Corymbosus.Xt The grain was anciently eaten with
bread, to prevent it from burning the throat, and the oil extracted from it was employed as a
cathartic.^
Another valuable production of the Cnidia was the Arundo Donax, or reed used for writing,
which was considered superior even to that of Egypt. || || It was doubtless grown in some
innumerabilesque alias, captas esse commemorem, cum vestros
portus atque eos portus quibus vitam et spiritum ducitis, in
prsedonum fuisse potestate sciatis? Cic. pro L. Manil. 12.
* Tdtv 06 aavXwv Kai ctEarwv irponpov iepwv k£aKO\pav ettiovtec to
KXapiov, to AiSv/xaiov, to ~2apodpaiciov, tov kv 'JLp/uovy ttiq ~X6ovla<;
vtu)v, Kai tov kv Eiric~avpo) tov 'Jkaic\r\Tnov, km. top 'ladpoi Kai Tat-
vajO(f> /cat KaXavpla tow IToffEiSwvoe, tov §' 'A7ro\A(uvoe rov kv "Akti'w
Kai AsvKaSi, Trjc S" ''RpaQ tov kv ~2ap.w, tov kv "Apyu, tov km Aa-
Ktvtij). Plutarch. Pomp. 24.
f Strabo, p. 637-—Athen. I, 25 (59.)
J Plin. H. N. XIV, 7, (9).
Elsewhere this wine was called irpodpo/xog olvoc or irpoyyua,
in Latin lixivium mustum. Columella XII, 27. v. Steph. Th.
in verbis.—Florentini Geopon. VI, 16.
§ Protropum: ita appellator a quibusdam mustum sponte
defluens, antequam calcentur uvge : hoc protinus diffusum
lagenis suis defervere passi, postea in sole quadraginta diebus
torrent sestatis secutae, ipso Canis ortu. Plin. H. N. XIV, 9,
(11).
|| Theophr. H. PI. 4, 2.— He is followed by Pliny, H. N.
XIII. 8, (16).
1 Theophr. H. PI. 7, 4.—Plin. H. N. XIX, 6, (32).
** Athen. II, 18. (53).
ff Chrysippus ap. Athen. II, 25. (76).
H Walpole's Memoirs relating to Turkey, I, p. 246.
§§ Plin. H. N. XIII, 21 (35), XV, 7 (7), XXIII, 4 (45),
XXIV, 15 (82), XXVII, 9 (46).—Dioscor. IV, 173.—Galen.
VI. de simp. med. p. 172.—Eubulus ap. Athen. II, 25 (73).
Illl Of this useful plant which furnished the javelin, the
pen, and the flute, Pliny, (H. N. XVI, 36 (64).) aptly remarks
" belli pacisque experimentis necessaria, atque etiam deliciis
grata."
Nunc o cseruleo creata ponto, (sc. Venus)
Qua? sanctum Idalium, Syrosque apertos,
Quaeque Ancona, Cnidumque arundinosam
Cobs.
Catull. 36, v. 11.
CNIDUS.
by Cicero, who has attested the importance of the city at that period. Probably however it did
not suffer much injury on this occasion, for among the temples of Apollo which Plutarch enu-
merates, as having been plundered and injured by the pirates, that of the Triopian deity is not
named.*
The Cnidian territory was noted among the ancients for the excellence of several of its natural
productions. Its wines were considered among the best in Asiatic Greece ;t the most cele-
brated was that called protropost because it was made of the liquor collected from the grapes
under the action of their own weight previously to artificial pressure; and which in the
ensuing summer was exposed for forty days to the sun.§ Another esculent production of this
peninsula was the tree called by the Ionians ke^ov'ux. || The name as well as the description which
Theophrastus has given of this tree leaves no doubt of its having been a variety of the Ceratonia
Siliqua, differing only from the Khanib of the Levant in bearing a white instead of a purple blos-
som. The Cnidia was noted also for its onions, which were said to be less caustic than any others.!
The colocynth, a gourd which in some places was named the gikuti ' IvSixri, and in others omua.
liKocDviz, was at Cnidus simply called'IvhK\, by which name it was distinguished from the com-
mon aixvz** The vinegar of Cnidus had no rival in reputation, but that of Egypt.-H-
The coccum or granum Cnidium, sometimes called linum Cnidium, from some supposed re-
semblance to flax, was employed only as a medicine. Its true name was Xaiiotikiau, Chamelaea
or Thymelaea. The first of these is still preserved in the slightly corrupted form of yoLiudlw.
According to Sibthorp it is the Carthamus Corymbosus.Xt The grain was anciently eaten with
bread, to prevent it from burning the throat, and the oil extracted from it was employed as a
cathartic.^
Another valuable production of the Cnidia was the Arundo Donax, or reed used for writing,
which was considered superior even to that of Egypt. || || It was doubtless grown in some
innumerabilesque alias, captas esse commemorem, cum vestros
portus atque eos portus quibus vitam et spiritum ducitis, in
prsedonum fuisse potestate sciatis? Cic. pro L. Manil. 12.
* Tdtv 06 aavXwv Kai ctEarwv irponpov iepwv k£aKO\pav ettiovtec to
KXapiov, to AiSv/xaiov, to ~2apodpaiciov, tov kv 'JLp/uovy ttiq ~X6ovla<;
vtu)v, Kai tov kv Eiric~avpo) tov 'Jkaic\r\Tnov, km. top 'ladpoi Kai Tat-
vajO(f> /cat KaXavpla tow IToffEiSwvoe, tov §' 'A7ro\A(uvoe rov kv "Akti'w
Kai AsvKaSi, Trjc S" ''RpaQ tov kv ~2ap.w, tov kv "Apyu, tov km Aa-
Ktvtij). Plutarch. Pomp. 24.
f Strabo, p. 637-—Athen. I, 25 (59.)
J Plin. H. N. XIV, 7, (9).
Elsewhere this wine was called irpodpo/xog olvoc or irpoyyua,
in Latin lixivium mustum. Columella XII, 27. v. Steph. Th.
in verbis.—Florentini Geopon. VI, 16.
§ Protropum: ita appellator a quibusdam mustum sponte
defluens, antequam calcentur uvge : hoc protinus diffusum
lagenis suis defervere passi, postea in sole quadraginta diebus
torrent sestatis secutae, ipso Canis ortu. Plin. H. N. XIV, 9,
(11).
|| Theophr. H. PI. 4, 2.— He is followed by Pliny, H. N.
XIII. 8, (16).
1 Theophr. H. PI. 7, 4.—Plin. H. N. XIX, 6, (32).
** Athen. II, 18. (53).
ff Chrysippus ap. Athen. II, 25. (76).
H Walpole's Memoirs relating to Turkey, I, p. 246.
§§ Plin. H. N. XIII, 21 (35), XV, 7 (7), XXIII, 4 (45),
XXIV, 15 (82), XXVII, 9 (46).—Dioscor. IV, 173.—Galen.
VI. de simp. med. p. 172.—Eubulus ap. Athen. II, 25 (73).
Illl Of this useful plant which furnished the javelin, the
pen, and the flute, Pliny, (H. N. XVI, 36 (64).) aptly remarks
" belli pacisque experimentis necessaria, atque etiam deliciis
grata."
Nunc o cseruleo creata ponto, (sc. Venus)
Qua? sanctum Idalium, Syrosque apertos,
Quaeque Ancona, Cnidumque arundinosam
Cobs.
Catull. 36, v. 11.