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HISTORY or CNIDUS. 361
narrow territory lay between two maritime states,
the princes of Caria and the Rhodians, both too
formidable at sea to permit the development of an
independent naval power so near them.
The Cnidian territory was noted among the
ancients for the excellence of several of its natural
productions. Its wines were considered amongst
the best in Asiatic Greece, and the kind called pro-
tropos was particularly celebrated. This was the
first liquor extracted from the grapes by the action
of their own weight, before they were artificially
pressed.8 To this day, the district near Cnidus
produces olive oil superior in quality to that of the
Archipelago generally.
The commercial relations between Cnidus and
Egypt commenced, as has already been stated, at
a very early date, and must have been con-
tinued to the Macedonian and Roman periods.
Eubulus, quoted by Athenseus,' praises the Kw'oia
xsoarxia, probably referring in this expression to
those very Cnidian dlotcc of which Mr. Stoddart
collected the handles at Alexandria, and in which the
choice wines and olive oil of Cnidus were doubtless
exported. Other valuable productions of the Trio-
pian soil, such as the Arundo Donax, or reed used
for writing, and the xszarsa, or Ceratonia Siliqua,"
8 Strabo, xiv. p. G37. Atlien. i. 25 (59). Leake, Memoir on
Cnidus, p. 12. On the reverse of some of the copper eoius of
Cnidus are two bunches of grapes.
1 Atlien. i. 22 (50). See Casaubon on this passage, Atlien. ed.
Schweigh. 1801, i. p. 211.
" This tree still grows wild in the district between Cnidus and
the Lion tomb.
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narrow territory lay between two maritime states,
the princes of Caria and the Rhodians, both too
formidable at sea to permit the development of an
independent naval power so near them.
The Cnidian territory was noted among the
ancients for the excellence of several of its natural
productions. Its wines were considered amongst
the best in Asiatic Greece, and the kind called pro-
tropos was particularly celebrated. This was the
first liquor extracted from the grapes by the action
of their own weight, before they were artificially
pressed.8 To this day, the district near Cnidus
produces olive oil superior in quality to that of the
Archipelago generally.
The commercial relations between Cnidus and
Egypt commenced, as has already been stated, at
a very early date, and must have been con-
tinued to the Macedonian and Roman periods.
Eubulus, quoted by Athenseus,' praises the Kw'oia
xsoarxia, probably referring in this expression to
those very Cnidian dlotcc of which Mr. Stoddart
collected the handles at Alexandria, and in which the
choice wines and olive oil of Cnidus were doubtless
exported. Other valuable productions of the Trio-
pian soil, such as the Arundo Donax, or reed used
for writing, and the xszarsa, or Ceratonia Siliqua,"
8 Strabo, xiv. p. G37. Atlien. i. 25 (59). Leake, Memoir on
Cnidus, p. 12. On the reverse of some of the copper eoius of
Cnidus are two bunches of grapes.
1 Atlien. i. 22 (50). See Casaubon on this passage, Atlien. ed.
Schweigh. 1801, i. p. 211.
" This tree still grows wild in the district between Cnidus and
the Lion tomb.
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