FOOTNOTES
[917] One of these, in particular, is J. F. Tresenreuter, in A Dissertation on Hops, which was printed at Nuremberg, 1759, 4to, with a preface by J. Heumann.
[918] Σμίλαξ τραχεῖα.
[919] Dioscor., iv. 244.
[920] Hist. Plant. iii. 18.
[921] xxi. 15, sect. 50.
[922] Cato De Re Rustica, xxxvii. p. 55.
[923] Most of the passages in ancient authors which relate to beer have been collected by Dithmar in his edition of Tacitus De Moribus German. cap. xxiii.; and by Meibom De Cerevisiis Veterum in Gronovii Thes. Antiq. Græc., ix. p. 548.
[924] [The word humulus is derived from humus, fresh earth, the hop only growing in rich soils.—Loudon and Sir W. Hooker.]
[925] This valuable monument of antiquity is to be found in (Nyerup) Symbolæ ad Literaturam Teutonicam, sumtibus A. F. Suhm, Havniæ 1787, 4to, pp. 331, 404.