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wine was handed round more than once during the repast : 
whereas he himself, when he returned from Asia, distributed 
as a largess among the people more than a hundred thousand 
cougiaria^ of the same wine. C. Sentius, whom we have seen 
Praetor, used to say that Chian wine never entered his house 
until his physician prescribed it to him for the cardiac''' dis- 
ease. On the other hand, Hortensius left ten thousand casks 
of it to his heir." Such is the statement made by Yarro. 
(15.) And besides, is it not a well-known fact that Csesar, 
when Dictator, at the banquet given on the occasion of his 
triumph, allotted to each table an amphora of Palernian and a 
cadus of Chian? On the occasion, too, of his triumph for his 
victories in Spain, he put before the guests both Chian as well 
as Ealernian ; and again, at the banquet given on his third 
consulship,^ he gave ralernian, Chian, Lesbian, and Mamer- 
tine ; indeed, it is generally agreed that this was the first 
occasion on which four different kinds of wine were served at 
table. It was after this, then, that all the other sorts came 
into such very high repute, somewhere about the year of the 
City 700. 
CRAP. 18. (16.) THR USES OF THE WILD VII^E. WHAT JUICES 
AEE NATUEALLY THE COLDEST OF ALL. 
I am not surprised, then, that for these many ages there 
have been invented almost innumerable varieties of artificial 
wines, of which i shall now make some mention ; they are all 
of them employed for medicinal purposes. We have already 
stated in a former Book how omphacium,^ which is used for 
unguents, is made. The liquor known as cenanthinum " is 
made from the wild vine,^^ two pounds of the fiowers of which 
are steeped in a cadus of must, and are then changed at the 
end of thirty days. In addition to this, the root and the 
^ Vessels containing a congius, or the eighth of an amphora, nearly si:t 
pints Enghsh. 
As to this malady, see B. xi. c. 71. 
8 B.C. 46. 9 B. xii. c. 61. 
Or "labrusca.'^ ^' (Enanthinum '* means " made of vine flowers." The 
wild vine is not a distinct species from the cultivated vine : it is only a 
variety of it, known in botany as the Vitis silvestris labrusca of Toiirnefort. 
Fee thinks that as the must could only be used in autumn, when the wild 
vine was not flowering, the flowers of it must have been dried. 
