68 PEOSE HAXIETJTICS. 



transgress the laws of hospitality or of salt were equiva- 

 lent phrases. But as chemical' affinities are sometimes 

 stronger than moral obligations, it would occasionally 

 happen, even after such friendly entertainment, that a 

 peijured guest violated, like Paris, the implied obliga- 

 tion, when he might expect a just and heavy retribution 

 from the Gods. 



Garum was originally made from a fish called by 

 the Greeks garon, but only known at Rome, in Pliny's 

 day, as a sauce ; that manufactured from the mackerel 

 of New Carthage, and further named ' garum sociorvmi' 

 (allies' sauce), in supposed compliment to the Spaniards, 

 then in alliance with Rome, was reckoned the best. 

 Strabo bears similar testimony to the merits of the 

 Carthagena sauce; but as very good eau de Cologne is 

 made in Paris, though not quite equal to the original, 

 so the article in question was at first imitated at Pom- 

 peii, out of Campanian scombers, and other sea-fish; 

 tUl, as the demand increased, many new places entered 

 the lists, and a great variety of fishy compounds came 

 to be offered to the Latin public, each bearing on the 

 bottle a label with the old name, and pretending to be 

 concocted from the original receipt. These imitations 

 were, as we learn, of very unequal merits : sometimes the 

 liquor ran thick and turbid, as the epithet /lEcosMm suf- 

 ficiently indicates ; in general however, though varying 

 greatly in taste, quality, consistence, and colour, they 

 were for the most part defecated and clear. One species, 

 in particular, was so bright and transparent, as to resem- 

 ble in appearance, as in flavour, ' honeyed wine.'* Besides 



* TMs gives a strange notion of the sweet wines of antiquity, 

 when a salted essence of fisli could be converted into anything 

 resembling them in flavour; the ancient wines however were not 

 unfrequently seasoned with sea-water: Pliny mentions no less 

 than seven so doctored; the most famous among them was one 



