[42]. Cnidus paid dear for this desertion by loss of all her ships (Thucyd. viii. 35, 42).
[43]. Hamilton (ii. 42) shows that more than one of Julius Cæsar’s personal friends were connected with Cnidus.
[44]. See papers by W. W. Lloyd in “Museum of Classical Antiquities,” vol. i. 1851.
[45]. Praxiteles made two statues of Venus, one naked, the other veiled. The Coans chose the latter, the Cnidians the former.
[46]. The territory round Cnidus was rich in wine, corn, oil, and various vegetables, noticed by Athenæus (i. p. 33, ii. p. 66), and by Pliny (xiii. 35, xix. 32, &c.). Pliny adds (xvi. 64) that Cnidian reeds made excellent pens; hence the fitness of Catullus’s lines—
“Quæque Ancona Cnidumque arundinosam
Colis” (Carm. xxx. vi. 11).
The historian Ctesias, Eudoxus, a disciple of Plato, and Agatharcides, were natives of Cnidus. From Hierocles, the Notitiæ and the Acts of Councils, it would seem to have existed as late as the seventh and eighth centuries.
The report of the Dilettanti Society, to which we have alluded, and those of Captain Beaufort and others, having excited much interest in England, it was thought advisable that careful excavations should be made at a spot where there was so much promise of successful results; hence Mr. Newton, at the close of his work at Halicarnassus, resolved to do for Cnidus what he had done for the other Carian city.
