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[5] They say that each vine produces a metretes of wine, while there are some fig trees which produce ten medimni of dried figs.1 The grain which is overlooked at the harvest and falls to the ground germinates without being sown and brings to maturity an abundant harvest.

1 Strabo 11.7.2 (cp. Strabo 2.1.14), who says sixty medimni. A metretes was about four and one-half gallons, a medimnus about one and one-half bushels.

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