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,—