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symphyton or herb of Ida or Orestion or nectaria, 

 the root of which is added in the proportion of 

 50 drams to 6 pints of must, after being similarly 

 wrapped in a hnen napkin. Of the remaining herbs, 

 wormwood wine is made by boihng down a pound of 

 Pontic wormwood in five gallons of must to one-third 

 of its amount, or else by putting shoots of worm- 

 wood into wine. Similarly hyssop -svine is made of 

 Cihcian hyssop by throwing three ounces of hyssop 

 into a gallon and a half of wine, or, if the hyssop is 

 first pounded, into three-quarters of a gallon. Each 

 of these wines may also be made in another way, by 

 sowing the plant round the roots of vines. Also 

 Cato shows how to make hellebore wine in the same r.r. oxv. 

 way by using black hellebore ; also the same method 

 is used in making scammony Mine, vines having a 

 remarkable property of drawing into themselves the 

 fiavour of some other plant, which explains why the 

 grapes plucked in the marshes of Padua actually have 

 a flavour of willow. Similarly in Thasos also helle- 

 bore is planted among the vines,or else wild cucumber 

 or scammony ; the wine so obtained is called by a 

 Greek name denoting miscarriage, because it pro- 

 duces abortion. 



Wine is also made from herbs the nature of which 

 will be described in their proper place ; for instance 

 from lavender and from gentian root and goat- 

 marjoram and dittany, hazelwort, carrot, sage, all- 

 heal, acorus, thyme, mandragora, and sweet rush. 

 There is also mention of scyzinum and itaeomehs 

 and lectisphagites, for which the recipe is now lost. 



From the shrub and tree class, use is made of both winesfrom 

 kinds of cedar, the cypress, the laurel, the juniper, *'"*"**• 

 the terebinth, the reed and the mastic-tree, the 



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