The extreme mildness of the seasons here is
						shown by the actual products. At any rate, plants that will not even grow in
						many countries bear fruit here. Not less productive than the land is the sea
						around the coasts. Notice too that the good things which the gods send in
						their season all come in earlier here and go out later than elsewhere. And the pre-eminence of the land is not only in the things that bloom and
						wither annually: she has other good things that last for ever. Nature has
						put in her abundance of stone, from which are fashioned lovely temples and
						lovely altars, and goodly statues for the gods. Many Greeks and barbarians
						alike have need of it.