jan 1, 228 - Athenaeus "Deipnosophists"

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§ 3.23 Phaulian apples are named by Telecleides in the Amphictyons, as follows:

"O ye who are sometimes fine, sometimes fouler than phaulian apples."

So Theopompus in Theseus. And Androtion in the Farmers' Handbook says that "apple-trees are phaulian or struthian (the fruit of the latter does not fall off from its stalk), still others are the spring-time apples, either Laconian, or Siduntian, or with downy skins."

As for me, dear friends, I hold in greatest esteem the apples sold in Rome and called Matian, which are said to come from a village situated in the Alps, near Aquileia. Not much inferior to these are the apples of Gangra, a city of Paphlagonia. That Dionysus is also the discoverer of the apple is attested by Theocritus of Syracuse, in words something like these:

"Storing the apples of Dionysus in the folds at my bosom, and wearing on my head white poplar, sacred bough of Heracles."

And Neoptolemus the Parian, in the Dionysiad, records on his own authority that apples as well as all other fruits were discovered by Dionysus.
"As for the epimelis, that is a name given to a kind of pear," according to Pamphilus. Apples of the Hesperides is a term recorded by Timachidas in the fourth book of his Banquets. And Pamphilus says that in Lacedemon these are placed on the tables of the gods; fragrant they are, and also not good to eat, and they are called apples of the Hesperides. Aristocrates, to cite another example, in the fourth book of his Spartan History speaks of "apples, too, and apple-trees called Hesperid."

(Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 3.23)

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