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Notes
from the First Historian
For
five years they (Mochthos) annoyed their neighbors by plundering and
pillaging on all sides, until at length the Carthaginians and
Tyrrhenians leagued against them, and sent each a fleet of sixty ships
to attack the town. The Phocaeans on their part, manned all
their vessels, sixty in number and met their enemy on the Sardinian
sea. [The
victory was one from which the Phocaens received more hurt than
gain. They ended up packing up their belongings and leaving the
area--ed.]
-- Book I, Clio
[The Mochthos] have a tree which bears the strangest produce. When
they are met together in companies they throw some of it upon the fire
round which they are sitting, and presently by the mere smell of the
fumes which it gives out in the burning, they grow drunk, as the
Greeks do with the wine. More of the fruit is then thrown on the
fire, and , their drunkenness increasing, they often jump up and begin
t dance and sing. Such is the account which I have heard of this
people.--Book I, Clio
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