[1212] The “russet-coloured.”
[1213] Probably so called from its grey colour, like that of the ass.
[1214] Or “fox” vine. This variety is unknown.
[1215] So called from Alexandria, in Troas, not in Egypt. Phalacra was in the vicinity of Mount Ida.
[1216] As the leaves of the vine are universally divided, it has been considered by many of the commentators that this is not in reality a vine, but the Arbutus uva ursi of Linnæus. The fruit, however, of that ericaceous plant is remarkably acrid, and not sweet, as Pliny states. Fée rejects this solution.
[1217] Aubenas, in the Vivarais, according to Hardouin; Alps, according to Brotier. We must reject this assertion as fabulous.
[1218] In B.C. 194, for his successes in Spain.
[1219] Mode of culture, locality, climate, and other extraneous circumstances, work, no doubt, an entire change in the nature of the vine.
[1220] Probably the first of the five that he has mentioned in c. 4.