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Greeks for making tools. Theophrastus testifies (lib. iii. cap. 
3.) that it is naturally stronger, icyugdrega rã pùsu than the 
cultivated olive, and that the best hammers and augers were 
made of it, opugiov wiv xa) repérgiov, girora wiv yivsrar Kortvov, — (lib. 
v. cap. 9.) Shepherds' staves were also formed of it. "Thus 
Apollonius Arg. lib. ii. v. 34. 
KaXajgorá re renye 
Ka Bure, v» Qogéeoxty, dgirgepéos Koriivoo.— 
Theocritus describes Hercules’ club as being of the same 
wood.— 7dyl. xxv. v. 207. 257. 
Baxrgov 
Evrayis, duréprour, earngegeos Korivoio, 
"Ever gov. ——— — 
Again, Idyl. vii. v. 18.—— 
orav y BA Aypiehain 
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A£irepG. xoguveey. 
Et vide Pausanias. lib, ii. cap. 31. But the common Wild 
Olive must not be confused with that variety of xórwoe, 
which was called zc»uerígewe, and was said to have been 
brought by Hercules from Scythia into Greece. It was 
reserved for crowning the victors at the Olympic games. 
See Pausanias. lib. v. cap. 15. sec. 3. Theophrastus alludes 
to it; and states that the most ancient Coronary Cotinus 
was in Olympia, Kórnoy ò rò èv’ OAuwmig, ap’ ob ò orépavos, (Jib. 
iv. cap. 14.) Confer also Herodotus, Uran. cap. 26. 
This tree is very frequent in the limestone districts of 
Sicily. It is the Oleaster of Virgil. Oil, «n dyzgias aine, 
Diosc. lib. i, cap. 31, 141, is at this day, in Greece, extracted 
from its fruit ( Dodwell); it was formerly used in medicine. 
_ 19. Phillyrea latifolia.— Broad-leaved Phillyrea.—Z. Grac. 
vol, i. tab. 2. 
birAvgea, Diosc. lib. i. cap. 126.—girdruga, Theoph. lib. i. cap. 
16. It is now named in Greece QurAAIxE, and  sw«uómpno, 
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