[493]. Conf. Beckmann, Hist. Invent. i. 402. sqq. Dioscor. v. 125.

[494].

A. Ἐν τοῖς συμποσίοισιν οὐ πίνετ᾽

Ἄκρατον. S. Οὐ γὰρ ῥᾴδιον· πωλοῦσι γὰρ

Ἐν ταῖς ἁμάξαις εὐθέως κεκραμένων·

Οὐχ ἵνα τι κερδαίνωσι, τῶν δ᾽ ὠνουμένων

Προνοούμενοι τοῦ τὰς κεφαλὰς ὑγιεῖς ἔχειν

Ἐκ κραιπάλης.

Alex. ap. Athen. x. 38.

[495]. The Greeks gave fanciful names to their wines and their cups; but the English have been still more fanciful in the names of their ales. See Bent. Dissert. on Phalaris, i. pref. xxi.