[1187] Possibly meaning the “mouthful.”
[1188] Perhaps so called from Prusa in Bithynia, a district which bore excellent grapes.
[1189] Or the “turning” grape. A fabulous story no doubt, originating in the name, probably. Fée suggests that it may have originated in the not uncommon practice of letting the bunches hang after they were ripe, and then twisting them, which was thought to increase the juice.
[1190] In the modern Marches of Ancona.
[1191] Georgics, ii. 91, et seq.
Sunt Thasiæ vites, sunt et Mareotides albæ:
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Et passo Psithia utilior, tenuisque Lageos,
Tentatura pedes olim, vincturaque linguam,
Purpuræ, Preciæque——