Poros, king of the Indians, says: "my foodstuff are vegetables and the hearts of date-palms [phoinika] and the fruit of date-palms, and whatever crops the river irrigates".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the proverbial phrase][2] "Phoenicians' contracts". When the Phoenicians who founded Carthage landed in Libya, they begged the natives to receive them for a night and a day; but when they had achieved this they were not willing to leave, on the basis that they were making an agreement to stay 'nights and days'. Hence this is what is said of those making an agreement by stealth. Demon has a similar story to tell of the men of Metapontum.[3]