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Amphis praises also the wine which comes from the city of Acanthus, saying,— A. Whence do you come, friend? speak. B. From Acanthus I. A. Acanthus? then I trow, Since you're a countryman of wine so strong, You must be fierce yourself; Your country's name is thorny, ῎ἄκανθα is Greek for a thorn. but I hope Your manners are not quite so rough and prickly. And Alexis mentions Corinthian wine as a harsh wine— And foreign wine was there; for that from Corinth Is painful drinking. He speaks, too, of wine from Eubœa— Drinking deep draughts of harsh Eubœan wine. The Naxian wine is compared by Archilochus to nectar. And he says in some one of his poems— My spear finds corn, my spear finds wine, From Ismarus; on my spear I dine, And on it, when fatigued, recline. But Strattis praises the wine of Sciathus— The black Sciathian wine mix'd half and half, Invites the traveller to halt and quaff. And Achæus praises the Bibline wine— He pledged him in a cup of Bibline wine. While it has its name from some district which is called by a similar appellation. And Philyllius says,— I'll give you Lesbian, Chian wine, Thasian, Mendæan, and Bibline; Sweet wines, but none so strong and heady As that you shall next day feel seedy.
