BOOK XIV. IV. 74-76 



nature smacks of the sea ; and that of Mount Tmolus 

 also is not esteemed as a wine to drink neat, but 

 because being a sweet wine an admixture of it gives 

 sweetness to the dry quality of the remaining vin- 

 tages, at the same time also giving them age, as it 

 at once makes them seem more mature. Next after 

 these in esteem are the wines of Sicyon, Cyprus, 

 Telmesus, TripoH, Beyrout, Tyre and Sebennys. 

 This last is grown in Egypt, being made frora three 

 famous kinds of grapes that grow there, the Thasian, 

 the soot-grape and the pine-tree grape. Ranking 

 after these are the wines of Hippodamas, of Mystus 

 and of the canthareos vine, the protropum*^ of Cnidos, 

 and the wines of the volcanic region in Mysia, 

 of Petra and of Myconos. As for the vintage of 

 Mesogis, it has been found to cause headache, and 

 that of Ephesus has also proved to be unwholesome, 

 because sea-v/ater and boiled must are employed to 

 season it. Apamea wine is said to be particularly 

 suitable for making mead, and so Hkewise is the 

 Praetutian in Italy — for this too is a property peculiar 

 to certain kinds of wine : two sweet wines do not 

 generally go well together. Protagion also has 

 quite gone out, a wine which the medical profession 

 had put next to those of Italy. The physician 

 Apollodorus in his pamphlet advising King Ptolemy 

 what wines to drink — the ItaHan vintages being 

 even then unknown — praised the wine of Nas- 

 percene in Pontus, and next to it the Oretic, 

 Oeneate, Leucadian, Ambraciote and Peparethian 

 vintages — the last he put before all the rest, but 

 said it was less well thought of on account of its 

 not being fit to drink before it was six years old. 

 " A sweet wine drawn off before treading {TpaTTcj) the grapea. 



