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them not in full vineyards ; whereas in hot regions, 

 and more spread and digested flowers, a sweet savour 

 may be allowed, denotable from several human ex- 

 pressions, and the practice of the ancients, in putting 

 the dried flowers of the vine into new wine to give it 

 a pure and flosculous race or spirit, which wine was 

 therefore called olvdvOtvov, allowing unto every cadus 

 two pounds of dried flowers. 



And therefore, the vine flowering but in the spring, 

 it cannot but seem an impertinent objection of the 

 Jews, that the apostles were " full of new wine at 

 Pentecost," when it was not to be found. Wherefore 

 we may rather conceive that the word yXevnv in that 

 place implied not new wine or must, but some generous 

 strong and sweet wine, wherein more especially lay the 

 power of inebriation. 



But if it be to be taken for some kind of must, it 

 might be some kind of aleiyXevKos, or long lasting 

 must, which might be had at any time of the year, 

 and which, as Pliny delivereth, they made by hindering 

 and keeping the must from fermentation or working, 

 and so it kept soft and sweet for no small time after. 



30. You will readily discover how widely they are 

 mistaken, who accept the sycamore mentioned in several 



