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tories of Mevania and Picenum, while the pumula belongs 
to Amiternum. In the same districts we find the vine called 
bannanica,^* which is ver^^ deceptive, though the people are 
remarkably fond of its fruit. The municipal town of Pom- 
peii has given its name to the Pompeia,^^ although it is to be 
found in greater abundance in the territory of Clusium. The 
Tiburina, also, is so called from the municipal town of Tibiir, 
although it is in this district that they have lately discovered 
the grape known as the oleaginea,'' from its strong resem- 
blance to an olive : this being the very last kind of grape that 
has been introduced. The Sabines and the Laurentes are the 
only people acquainted with the vinaciola.^"^ As to the vines 
of Mount Graurus,^^ I am aware that, as they have been trans- 
planted from the Palernian territory, they bear the name of 
Ealernian but it is a fact that the Palernian vine, when 
transplanted, rapidly degenerates. Some persons, too, have 
made out a Tarentine variety, with a grape of remarkable 
sweetness : the grapes of the capnios," the " bucconiatis,"^'' 
and the ''tarrupia," grow on the hills of Thurii, and are 
never gathered till after the frost commences. Pisse enjoys 
the Parian vine, and Mutina the prusinian,^^ with a black 
grape, the wine of which turns pale within four years. It is 
a very remarkable thing, but there is a grape here that turns 
round mth the sun, in its diurnal motion, a circumstance from 
which it has received the name of streptos."^^ In Italy, the 
sun, common in Italy, and more particularly in the Valley of Bevagna, the 
Mevania of Pliny, are made. 
83 Perhaps from '^pumilio/' a dwarf. 
8* The " royal" vine, according to Poinsinet, who would derive it from 
the Sclavonic "ban.*' 
85 Previously mentioned, p. 228. 
8S The residence of Horace, now Tivoli. 
87 Baccius says that the wine of this grape was thin like water, and that 
the vine was trained on lofty trees, a mode of cultivation still followed in 
the vicinity of Eome. Laurentum was situate within a short distance of 
it, near Ostia. 
S8 See B. iii. c. 9, 
89 So called from the smoky or intermediate colour of its grapes. Fee 
suggests that this may be the slow-ripening grape of France, called the 
" verjus," or " rognon de coq." 
90 Possibly meaning the " mouthful." 
91 Perhaps so called from Prusa in Bithynia, a district which bore ex- 
cellent grapes. 
92 Or the " turning " grape. A fabulous story no doubt, originating in 
