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Naxos, though small in comparison with Euboea or Cyprus, is the largest of the Cyclades, 19 miles by 15. It was celebrated for its wine (cf. the wine-cup on its coins, Head, H. N. 488; Hill, G. and R. C. 167), and still produces good corn, oil, wine, and fruit; cf. Bent, Cyclades (ch. xiv); Tozer, Islands of the Aegean, ch. iv. Yet it only sent four ships to Salamis (viii. 46. 3), and never paid more than 6 2/5 talents as tribute to Athens, while its neighbour Paros paid 16 1/5 talents.

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