[1361] This was evidently a kind of grape sirop, or grape jelly. “Rob” is perhaps, as Hardouin suggests, a not inappropriate name for it.
[1362] When cold, they would have nearly the same consistency.
[1363] The raisin wine of Crete was the most prized of all as a class.
[1364] Mentioned in c. [4]. Probably a muscatel grape.
[1365] See c. [4] of this Book.
[1366] Or “vat.” The common reading was “oleo,” which would imply that they were plunged into boiling oil. Columella favours the latter reading, B. xii. c. 16.
[1367] The reading is probably defective here.
[1368] Passum secundarium.
[1369] Or “always sweet.”
[1370] “Always must.”