§§ 35—7. The improbability of the defendant's statement is shown by the custom of exporting wine to, not importing it from, the Pontus. Lacritus' account, that his brother Artemon had lent a friend of his in Pontus 100 staters, contravenes the terms of the bond, that goods should be purchased with the money ‘in Pontus,’ and brought back to Athens.
κατ᾽ ἐμπορίαν ‘In the way of trade.’
εἰς τὸν Πόντον ὁ οἶνος—Θάσιος [Ar. fragm. 301 οἶνον δὲ πίνειν οὐκ ἐάσω Πράμνιον, οὐ Χῖον, οὐχὶ Θἀσιον, οὐ Πεπαρήθιον. Virg. G. 11 91 ‘Sunt Thasiae vites.’ Fragments of earthenware winejars have been found near the harbours of the Northern Euxine, especially the ancient Olbia (at the mouth of the Dmeper), stamped with the names of Rhodes, Cnidus and Thasos (Büchsenschutz, Besitz u. Erwerb, pp. 422—4; cf. Strabo quoted on Or. 34 § 10). The excavation of a tumulus in the Cimmerian Bosporus disclosed an eaithen amphora, with the stamp of Thasos on the handle. showing ‘that then, as now, the wines of the Archipelago were imported to the Crimea’ (Newton's Essays, p. 378). In the Leake Collection there are several coins of Peparethus, with the head of Bacchus, and on the reverse a diota or cantharus, with bunches of grapes. Those of Thasos often have the head of Bacchus or Silenus; those of Mende, Silenus on the obverse, and on the reverse a vine or a diota. See Plate of Coins, nos. 2, 3, 4. S.]
ἕτερά ἐστι Some of these are enumerated in Pers. Sat. v 134, ‘saperdas advehe Ponto, Castoreum, stuppas, ebenum, thus, lubrica Coa,’ where ‘Coa’ is interpreted to mean ‘silk’ or fine linen.
