BOOK XIV. V. 44-48 



tiiralist — has dealt with only a few varieties of the 



vine, inchiding some even the names of which are now 



extinct. His opinion deserves to be set out separately 



and liandled at full lcngth, to make us accjuainted 



with the varieties which were the most famous in the 



wholc of this class in the year 154 b.c, about the 



time of the taking of Carthage and Corinth, the period 



of Cato's demise — and to show us how great an 



advance civihzation has made in the subsequent 230 



years, The foUowing therefore are the remarks that 



he made on the subject of vines and grapes : ' In the i^- ^- ^i- ■*-. 



locahty pronounced to be best for the vine and fully 



exposed to the sun, you should plant the small variety 



of Aminian and the double eugenium, and also the 



small helvia. In a denser soil or a locahty more hable 



to io^ you should plant the larger Aminian or the 



Murgentine, the Apician, and the Lucanian. All the 



othcr varieties of vine, especially hybrids, are suited to 



anv kind of land. The smah Aminian grape and the 



larger one and the Apician are stored unstoned in a 



jar ; they can also be kept in new wine boiled down 



and must, and properly in after-wine. The larger 



Aminian hard-berry grapes, which one you hang up, 



are properly kept, for instance at a blacksmith's forge, 



to make raisins.' Nor are there any older instructions 



on this subject written in Latin, so near we are to the 



origin of things. The Aminian grape last mentioned 



is called by \^arro the Scantian. 



In our own period tliere have been few instances of ^odem 

 consummate skiU in this iieki, but it is ali the more vine-groinvg. 

 proper on that account not to omit them, so as also to 

 make known the rewards of success, which in eveiy 

 department attract the greatest attention. Well, 

 the greatest distinction was achieved b}^ Acihus 



voL. Tv. jj 217 



