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Hermon, in his Cretan Dialects, says that Cydonian apples are called κοδύμαλα. But Polemo, in the fifth book of the treatise against Timæus, says that some people affirm that the κοδύμαλον is a kind of flower. But Alcman asserts that it is the same as the στρούθιον apple, when he says, less than a κοδύμαλον. And Apollodorus and Sosibius understand the Cydonian apple by κοδύμαλον. But that the Cydonian apple differs from the στρούθιον, Theophrastus has asserted clearly enough in the second book of his History. Moreover, there are excellent apples grown at Sidus, (that is, a village in the Corinthian territory,) as Euphorion or Archytas says, in the poem called The Crane: — Like a beautiful apple which is grown on the clayey banks Of the little Sidus, refulgent with purple colour. And Nicander mentions them in his Transformed, in this manner:— And immediately, from the gardens of Sidoeis or Pleistus He cut green apples, and imitated the appearance of Cadmus. And that Sidus is a village of the Corinthian territory, Rhianus assures us, in the first book of the Heraclea; and Apollodorus the Athenian confirms it, in the fifth book On the Catalogue of the Ships. But Antigonus the Carystian says, in his Antipater—
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More dear to me was he than downy apples
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Of purple hue, in lofty Corinth growing.
