[1312] It was remarkable for its sweetness, and aromatics were sometimes mixed with it. Homer calls it harmless. Lesbos still produces choice wines.
[1313] Near Smyrna. Probably similar to the Pramnian wine, mentioned in c. [6].
[1314] See B. v. c. 30. This wine is mentioned again in the next page; it is generally thought, that he is wrong in making the Tmolites and the Mesogites distinct wines, for they are supposed to have been identical.
[1315] If drunk by itself, and not as a flavouring for other wines.
[1316] Bacchus had a temple there.
[1317] The wines of Cyprus are the most choice of all the Grecian wines at the present day.
[1318] In Lycia.
[1319] In Syria. Wine is no longer made there, but the grapes are excellent, and are dried for raisins.
[1320] Now Beyrout. It does not seem that wine is made there now. The Mahometan religion may have tended to the extinction of many of these wines.
[1321] At the village of Sour, on the site of ancient Tyre, the grape is only cultivated for raisins.