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ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου. From the Tauric Chersonese and the south coast of Scythia the Greeks (and especially Athens) imported corn largely (cf. iv. 17, and for later times Dem. Lept. ch. 31 f.; Xen. Mem. iii. 6. 13). This made the Hellespont and its trade so important (cf. Grundy, Thucydides, pp. 71-9, 159-61). Aegina, a small and populous island with a barren soil, must always have imported corn, but even as early as 480 B. C. Attica would have been a more natural destination for Pontic corn ships, though complete control of the route was only won by Athens after the formation of the Delian league (Grundy, op. cit., pp. 76, 77).

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