[1232] See B. vii. c. 57.
[1233] Thus making “mulsum.”
[1234] B. ix. c. 208.
[1235] Indomitus.
[1236] By “black” wines he means those that had the same colour as our port.
[1237] Il. xi. 638. Od. x. 234.
[1238] Cybele. A wine called “Pramnian” was also grown in the island of Icaria, in Lesbos, and in the territory of Ephesus. The scholiast on Nicander says that the grape of the psythia was used in making it. Dioscorides says that it was a “protropum,” first-class wine, made of the juice that voluntarily flowed from the grapes, in consequence of their own pressure.
[1239] B.C. 121.
[1240] “Cooking,” literally, or “boiling.”
[1241] The wines of Burgundy, in particular, become bitter when extremely old.