[4] Information on this subject is given by Sir Edward Barry, Observations on the Wines of the Ancients; Henderson, History of Ancient and Modern Wines; and Becker’s Charicles.
[5] This is probably the murrhina of Plautus (Pseudol. ii. 4, 50)
[6] This drink must not be confounded with ὑδρόμελι, honey and water, our mead, or ὑδρόμήλον, our cider.
[7] Pliny, Nat. Hist. xiv. 19, etc.
[8] Line 964, etc.
[9] Line 4044, etc.
[10] Line 1387, etc.
[11] Line 1432, etc.
[12] Line 135, etc.
[13] Hist. Account of the Cathedral Church of York, Lond., 1715, p. 7.