Shrubs, Trees, and Plants of Virgil 



often used for the bunch itself, and once, oddly, by 

 Virgil, for a berry (Ge. ii. 60). The berry was 

 'acinus' or 'acinum,' forms which between them 

 display all three genders. A stone of the grape was 

 ' vinaceum.' 



The centurion's staff and whipping-stick, ' nodosa 

 vitis,' was a ' palmes.' Bacchus, for the reins of his 

 team of panthers or tigers, used the young shoots. 



Flower, Spring. 

 Italian name, Vite. 



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