[1769]. Pausan. ix. 19. 8.
[1770]. Theoph. De Lapid. § 63. “On faisoit autrefois d’excellente poterie à Samos, et c’êtoit peut-être avec la terre de Bavonda.” Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, t. ii. p. 112.
[1771]. Athen. xi. 11. 95. 101. 108.
[1772]. The inferiority of the Samian pottery may be inferred from the following passage of Cicero: “Ille, homo eruditissimus, ac Stoicus, stravit pelliculis hœdinis lectulos Punicanos, et exposuit vasa Samia: quasi verò esset Diogenes Cynicus mortuus, et non divini hominis Africani mors honestaretur.” Pro Muren. 36. Cf. Plin. xxxv. 46.
[1773]. Athen. v. 60.
[1774]. Thucyd. i. 6.
[1775]. Lucian. Rhet. Præcept. § 15.
[1776]. Xenoph. Anab. vii. 5. 14.
[1777]. Much of the wine, however, exported by the Athenians into foreign countries was the produce of the islands. Demosth. cont. Lacrit. § 8.
[1778]. Schol. Aristoph. Plut. 720. Athen. ii. 76.