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ling are the inevitable result, until it has been thrown over- 
board. We have already made mention^^ of Aulocrene, a dis- 
trict through which you pass in going from Apamia into 
Phrygia : at this place they show a plane upon which Marsyas 
was hanged, after he had been conquered by Apollo, it having 
been chosen even in those days for its remarkable height. 
At Delos, also, there is a palm^*^ to be seen which dates from 
the birth of that divinity, and at Olympia there is a wild 
olive, from which Hercules received his first wreath : at the 
present day it is preserved with the most scrupulous venera- 
tion. At Athens, too, the olive produced by Minerva, is said 
still to exist. 
CHAP. 90. TREES WHICH AEE THE MOST SHOET-LIVED. 
On the other hand, the pomegranate,^^ the fig, and the apple 
are remarkably short-lived ; the precocious trees being still 
more so than the later ripeners, and those with sweet fruit than 
those with sour : among the pomegranates, too, that variety 
which bears the sweetest fruit lives the shortest time. The 
same is the case, too, with the vine,^° and more particularly 
tlie more fruitful varieties. Grsecinus informs us that vines 
have lasted so long as sixty years. It appears, also, that the 
aquatic trees die the soonest. The laurel, the apple, and 
the pomegranate age rapidly, it is true, but then they throw 
out fresh shoots at the root. The olive must be looked upon, 
then, as being one of the most long-lived, for it is generally 
agreed among authors that it will last two hundred years. 
CHAP. 91. TEEES THAT HAVE BEEKT EEISTDEEED EAMOrS BY 
EEMAEKABLE EVENTS. 
In the territory about the suburbs of Tusculum, upon a hill 
known by the name of Corne, there is a grove which has been 
consecrated to Diana by the people of Latium from time im- 
memorial ; it is formed of beeches, the foliage of which has ail 
^ See B. V. c. 29. 
The palm is by no means a long-lived tree. 
The pomegranate, on the contrary, has been known to live many cen- 
turies. 
^9 He has elsewhere said that the vine is extremely long-lived. 
^0 In the last Chapter he has spoken of a laurel having existed for many 
centuries. 
