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pliny's natural history. 
[Book XIV. 
Sicyon,^^ Cyprus, Telmessus,^^ Tripolis,^^ Berytus,^^ Tyre,^^ 
and Sebennys ; this last is grown in Egypt, being the produce 
of three varieties of grape of the very highest quality, known 
as the Thasian,^'' the aethalus,^^ and the pence. IN'ext in 
rank are the hippo damantian^" wine, the Mystic,^^ the can- 
tharite,^^ the protropum^^ of Cnidos, the wine of the catace- 
caumene,^* the Petritan,^^ and the Myconian;^^ as to the 
Mesogitic,^^ it has been found to give head-ache, while that of 
Ephesus is far from wholesome, being seasoned with sea -water 
and defrutum.^^ It is said that the wine of Apamea^^ is re- 
markably well adapted for making mulsum,^^ like that of Prae- 
tutia in Italy : for this is a quality peculiar to only certain 
kinds of wine, the mixture of two sweet liquids being in 
'^^ Bacchus had a temple there: 
22 ^i^i^g wines of Cyprus are the most choice of all the Grecian wines at 
the present day. 23 Lycia. 
In Syria. Wine is no longer made there, but the grapes are excel- 
lent, and are dried for raisins. 
Now Beyrout. It does not seem that wine is made there now. The 
Mahometan religion may have tended to the extinction of many of these 
wines. 
26 At the village of Sour, on the site of ancient Tyre, the grape is only 
cultivated for raisins. 
See also c. 22 : probably introduced from Thasos. 
The "smoky" grape. 29 j}jg "pitchy'* grape. 
^0 A strong wine, Hardouin thinks, from whence its name — "strong 
enough to subdue a horse." 
•^^ From the small island of Mystus, near Cephallenia. 
'■^2 So called from the vine the name of which was " canthareus." 
^•^ Made, as already stated, from the juice that flowed spontaneously from 
the grapes. See also p. 250. 
3* Or the "burnt up" country, a volcanic district of Mysia, which still 
retains its ancient fame for its wine. Virgil aUudes to this wine in 
Georg. iv. 1. 380 :— 
— Cape Mseonii carchesia Bacchi. 
35 Perhaps from Petra in Arabia: though Fee suggests Petra in the 
Balearic Islands. 
•^^ See B. iv. c. 22. In the island of Myconos in the Archipelago an ex- 
cellent wine is still grown. 
37 From Mount Mesogis, which divides the tributaries of the Cayster 
from those of the Meander. It is generally considered the same as the 
Tmolites. 
•■^8 Must or grape -juice boiled down to one half. 
39 See B. V. c. 29. 
io Mulsum," or honied wine, was of two kinds j honey mixed with 
wine, and honey mixed with must or grape-juice. 
