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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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From Stiris to Ambrossus is about six stades. The road is flat, lying on the level with mountains on both sides of it. The greater part of the plain is covered with vines, and in the territory of Ambrossus grow shrubs, though not close together like the vines. This shrub the Ionians, as well as the rest of the Greeks, call kokkos, and the Gauls above Phrygia call it in their native speech hys. This kokkos grows to the size of what is called the rhamnos; the leaves are darker and softer than those of the mastich-tree, though in other respects the two are alike.
Its fruit is like the fruit of the nightshade, and its size is about that of the bitter vetch. There breeds in the fruit of the kokkos a small creature. If this should reach the air when the fruit has ripened, it becomes in appearance like a gnat, and immediately flies away. But as it is they gather the fruit of the kokkos before the creature begins to move, and the blood of the creature serves as a dye for wool.
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