BOOK XIV. IV. 36-39 



they have special names, a vine at Florence being 

 called sopina and sonie at Arezzo * mole-vine ' and 

 * seasonal vine ' and ' crossed vine.'" The mole-vine 

 has black grapes and makes a white must ; the seasonal 

 vine is a deceptive plant, giving a more admirable 

 wine the larger crop of grapes it bears, and, remark- 

 able to say, coming to the end of its fertility and its 

 good quaUty at the same time ; the crossed vine has 

 black grapes and makes a wine that does not keep at all 

 long, but its grape keeps a \ery long time, and it is 

 gathered a fortnight later than any other variety, 

 bearing a large crop of grapes but only good for eating. 

 The leaves of this vine, hke those of the wild vine, 

 turn a blood-red colour before they fall ofF; this also 

 happens with some other vines, and is a sign of ex- 

 tremely inferior quaUty. The itriola is pecuHar to Um- 

 bria and to the districts of Bevagna and Ancona, and 

 the ' dwarf-vine ' to that of San Vettorino. The same 

 districts have the bananica, an unreHable vine, though 

 people become fond of it. The people of Pompei 

 give the name of their township to a grape, although 

 it grows in greater quantity at Chiusi ; the people of 

 TivoH also name a grape after their township, al- 

 though they have lately discovered the * oHve-grape,' 

 so caHed from its resemblance to an oHve : this is the 

 latest grape introduced hitherto. The vinaciola grape 

 is only known to the Sabines and the calventina to the 

 people of Mount Gaurus. Vines transplanted from 

 the Falernian territory are, I am aware, caUed 

 ' Falernian,' but tliey very quickly degenerate every- 

 where. Some people also have made out a Sorrento 

 variety, with a very sweet grape. The ' smoke-grape,' 

 the ' mouthful ' and the tharrupia, which grow on the 

 hiHs of Thurii, are not picked before there has been a 



