"The rose, of flow'rs th' enchanting pride;
The rose is Spring's enchanting bride;
The rose of every god's the joy;
With roses Cytherea's boy,
When, dancing, he'd some Grace ensnare,
Adorns the love-nets of his hair."
Anacreon. v. Addison's Tr.
[4] προτρυγαίου Διονύσου.
[5] The wine of most early celebrity was that which the minister of Apollo, Maron, who dwelt upon the skirts of Thracian Ismarus gave to Ulysses. It was red and honey-sweet; so precious, that it was unknown to all in the mansion save the wife of the priest and one trusty housekeeper; so strong, that a single cup was mixed with twenty of water; so fragrant, that even when thus diluted it diffused a divine and most tempting perfume.
See Odyss. ix. 203.; Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiq.
[6] κύλικα φιλοτησίαν.
.... "Ο this is from above—a stream
Of nectar and ambrosia, all divine!"
Od. B. ix. 355, Cowper.
[8] "He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes."—Gen. xlix. 11.
[9] ὑάλου ὀρωρυγμένης. Herodotus, iii. 24, uses the word ύάλος, to describe the clear transparent stone, supposed to be Oriental alabaster, used by the Egyptians to enclose their mummies.