[516]. Dioscor. v. 31. The physician observes of this beverage:—ἡ χρῆσις δ᾽ αὐτοῦ μετ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν.
[517]. Pallad. iii. 25. Colum. xii. 45. Dioscor. v. 32.
[518]. The palm-wine of Æthiopia would appear to have been celebrated in antiquity, since a small cask of it was thought a fit present for a Persian king. Herod. iii. 20. Plin. xiii. 4. Diod. Sicul. ii. 136.
[519]. Damm. Lexic. 2224. Cf. Eustath. ad Odyss. ω. t. iii. p. 839. 8, seq. Dioscor. v. 41.
[520]. Dioscor. v. 28.
[521]. Herod. iv. 177. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 3. 2. Wines were sometimes flavoured by an infusion of wild carrot-root (δαῦκος). Dioscor. v. 70. There was a drink called βρύτον, with roots, which sometimes supplied the place of wine. Athen. x. 67.
[522]. Dioscor. v. 34.
[523]. Id. v. 35.
[524]. Id. v. 59.
[525]. Χαμαίδρυς. Id. v. 51.