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4.98 APPENDIX.
PRICES OF SOME ARTICLES OF CONSUMPTION AT
ATHENS BY THE OCQUE.
Paras.
Oil............................................ 26
Wine.......................................... 7
Raw cotton ................................. 25
Nitre .......................................... 2.5 of second purification.
Grapes ....................................... 2
Hymettos honey ........................... 30
Bread.......................................... 10
Cheese ....................................... 13
Raw wool .................................... 1.5
Goat .......................................... 14
Lamb.......................................... 16
Flour ....................................... 4 J.
Butter, two piasters.
Red die, called P< gzpi ..................... 27£
This is the EfuSsofaw of Dioscorides, and is now called Pi?afi, or aypiopifapi, the same
as the rvbia pcregrina.
Soap, potash, and the spirit called raki, are also made at Athens. Soap is sometimes
made from the lentiscus. Lamp oil is also extracted from it; and the berries form a part
of the materia medica. There are in Greece four different kinds of the lentiscus:—the
schinos, (2%«*f);' the schinos aspros; the pixari; and the VOtomos. The two first produce
the clear mastic tears, (oax;ua),8 which only come to perfection in the island of Chios,
although there is no doubt the same quality might be produced in other parts of Greece, if
the cultivation of the tree was attended to with that care and attention which is practised
in Chios.
The votomos is the largest kind of lentiscus, and the only one bearing berries; it resembles
the wild lentiscus, and produces very little mastic. The pixari produces the greatest quan-
tity of gum; but it is soft, and not clear. The lentiscus is an evergreen; it flowers in
March, and the gum is gathered in September. The Greeks imagine, and not without
Theophrastus, HUt. Plant, b. 9. c. I. • Ibid.
PRICES OF SOME ARTICLES OF CONSUMPTION AT
ATHENS BY THE OCQUE.
Paras.
Oil............................................ 26
Wine.......................................... 7
Raw cotton ................................. 25
Nitre .......................................... 2.5 of second purification.
Grapes ....................................... 2
Hymettos honey ........................... 30
Bread.......................................... 10
Cheese ....................................... 13
Raw wool .................................... 1.5
Goat .......................................... 14
Lamb.......................................... 16
Flour ....................................... 4 J.
Butter, two piasters.
Red die, called P< gzpi ..................... 27£
This is the EfuSsofaw of Dioscorides, and is now called Pi?afi, or aypiopifapi, the same
as the rvbia pcregrina.
Soap, potash, and the spirit called raki, are also made at Athens. Soap is sometimes
made from the lentiscus. Lamp oil is also extracted from it; and the berries form a part
of the materia medica. There are in Greece four different kinds of the lentiscus:—the
schinos, (2%«*f);' the schinos aspros; the pixari; and the VOtomos. The two first produce
the clear mastic tears, (oax;ua),8 which only come to perfection in the island of Chios,
although there is no doubt the same quality might be produced in other parts of Greece, if
the cultivation of the tree was attended to with that care and attention which is practised
in Chios.
The votomos is the largest kind of lentiscus, and the only one bearing berries; it resembles
the wild lentiscus, and produces very little mastic. The pixari produces the greatest quan-
tity of gum; but it is soft, and not clear. The lentiscus is an evergreen; it flowers in
March, and the gum is gathered in September. The Greeks imagine, and not without
Theophrastus, HUt. Plant, b. 9. c. I. • Ibid.