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Why is it that Argive children in a certain
festival call themselves, in jest, ‘Pear-throwers’?
Is it because the first men that were led down by
Inachus from the mountains to the plain lived, as they
say, on wild pears? They also say that wild pears
were first discovered by the Greeks in the Peloponnesus at a time when that country was still called
Apia,1 wherefore wild pears were named apioi.
1 Cf. Pausanias, ii. 5. 7; Aelian, Varia Historia, iii. 39.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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