[1411] He says “caryotæ,” and not chydææ, in B. xiii. c. [4]. The modius was something more than our peck.
[1412] From the Greek σύκη, a “fig.” This wine was made, Fée thinks, from the produce of some variety of the sycamore. See B. xiii. c. [14].
[1413] “Prime palm” apparently.
[1414] Tortivum, probably: the second squeezing.
[1418] From ῥόα, a “pomegranate.”
[1419] Dioscorides calls it “strobilites.” Fée says that they could be of no service in producing a vinous drink.