Water and water-drinkers, 66;
various kinds of water, 68;
weight of water, 70, 75;
boiled water, 201.
Water-drinkers, list of, 73.
Willow, or osier, garlands of, 1072, 1074.
Wine, origin of the name, 57;
praises of, 65;
different kinds, 43 to 57;
Homer dissuades from the free use of, 16;
evils of drunkenness, 672;
pure wine only to be used for religious purposes, 1107;
mixed wine, 667;
unmixed wine, 673;
sweet wine, 207;
scented wine, 53;
spiced wine, 52.
Wives, doubtful whether Socrates had two, 889;
concubines tolerated by, 890;
many wives of Hercules and of Theseus, 891;
of Philip, 892;
complaints against, 894.
Women said to be fond of drinking, 696;
wine forbidden to them by the Romans, 696;
restraints on, in Syracuse, 835;
liberty of, among the Sybarites, 835;
among the Tyrrhenians, 829;
infamous treatment of, 702, 826, 827, 840, 849, 866;
ruin of states attributed to, 896;
many beautiful, mentioned, 971.
Woodcocks, 611.
Words, dissertations on the use of particular, 605, 633, 705, 785.
Xanthus the Lydian cited, 546, 654, 822, 826.
Xenarchus cited, 105, 356, (poetic version, 1141,) 501, 578, 059, 671, 680, 696, 697, 755,
894, 910, 1085, 1107.