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1 Said to have been so called from Maron, a king of Thrace, who dwelt in the vicinity of the Thracian Ismarus. See B. iv. c. 18. Homer mentions this wine in the Odyssey, B. ix. c. 197, et seq. It was red, honeysweet, fragrant. The place is still called Marogna, in Roumelia, a country the wines of which are still much esteemed.
2 See B. vii. c. 57.
3 Thus making "mulsum."
4 B. ix. c. 208.
5 Indomitus.
6 By "black" wines he means those that had the same colour as our port.
7 Il. xi. 638. Od. x. 234.
8 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. Dios- corides 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.
9 B.C. 121.
10 "Cooking," literally, or "boiling."
11 The wines of Burgundy, in particular, become bitter when extremely old.
12 See B. vii. c. 18.
13 Caligula.
14 By some remarkable and peculiar quality, such as in the Opimian wine.
15 "Testa," meaning the amphora.
16 See c. 3 of the present Book, where these "picata," or "pitched- wines," have been further described.
17 On the contrary, Fée says, the coldest wines are those that contain the least alcohol, whereas those of Vienne (in modern Dauphiné) contain more than the majority of wines.
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