Note 2289 — Chapter XII · EXPORTS OF THE ISLANDS, ITALY, GAUL, AND SPAIN.
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The Greeks on the coast of the Black Sea still esteem the large vine-snail a delicacy, in which they chiefly indulge during Lent. Pallas, Travels in Southern Russia, iv. 247. These delicacies are probably not in season until they begin to fly the Pleiades and seek the shade of the leaves:
Ἀλλ᾽ ὁποτ᾽ ἂν φερέοικος ἀπὸ χθονὸς ἀμφυτὰ βαίνῃ,
Πληϊάδας φεύγων, τότε δὴ σκάφος οὐκέτι οἰνέων.
Hesiod. Opp. et Dies, 571, seq.