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Homer, for example, makes men better than they are; Cleophon as they are; Hegemon the Thasian, the inventor of parodies, and Nicochares, the author of the Deiliad, worse than they are.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

The Greeks called it the Greek or Thasian nut, and the Romans believed that by eating half a dozen of them, they were secured against drunkenness, however deeply they might imbibe.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Yes, like enough, if you poured him out Thasian wine.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

But this, you will say, was the language of a Thasian.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

And Archestratus says— The Carian and the Thasian polypi Are far the best; Corcyra too can breed Fish of large size and very numerous.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us