258 
PLIjS^Y's I^ATUllAL HISTORY. 
[Book XIV.» 
seed, abrotonum,^^ wild mint, rue,^^ catmint, wild thyme,"'^* 
and horehound.^^ A couple of handfuls of these ingredients 
are put into a cadus of must, as also one sextarius of sapa,^^ and 
half a sextarius of sea- water. A wine is made of the naphew^^ 
turnip by adding two drachms of naphew to two sextarii of 
must. A wine is made also from the roots of squills. Among 
the flowers, that of the rose furnishes a wine : the leaves are 
put in a linen cloth and then pounded, after which they are 
thrown into must with a small weight attached to make them 
sink to the bottom, the proportion being forty drachms of leaves 
to twenty sextarii of must ; the vessel in which it is kept 
must not be opened before the end of three months. A wine, 
too, is made of Gallic nard,^^ and another kind of the wild.^^ 
variety of that plant. 
I find, also, that various kinds of aromatites^^ are pre- 
pared, differing but very little in their mode of composition 
from that of the unguents, being made in the first instance, 
as I have already stated,*^ of myrrh, and then at a later period 
of Celtic nard,^^ calamus, and aspalathus,^* of which cakes are 
made, and are then thrown into either must or sweet wine. 
Others, again, make these wines of calamus, scented rush,^^ 
costus,^^ Syrian nard,*^ amomum,^^ cassia,^^ cinnamon, saffron, 
palm-dates, and foal-foot,^^ all of which are made up into cakes 
in a similar manner. Other persons, again, put half a pound 
of nard and malobathrum^^ to two congii of must ; and it is 
in this manner that at the present day, with the addition of 
•^^ Artemisia abrotonuni of Linnseus. ;Ruta graveolens of Linnaeus. 
Nepeta cataria of Linnaeus. Thymus serpyllum of Linnaeus. 
2^ Marrubiuni vulgare of Linnseus. 
Grape-juice boiled down to one- third. 
^'^ Brassica napus of Linnseus. '^^ Scilla marina of Linnseus. , 
39 Nardus Gallicus, or Valeriana Celtica of Linnaeus. See B. xii. c. 26. 
• Nardus silvestris or baccaris, Aromatic wines. 
^2 In c. 15 of this Book. ^3 Valeriana Celtica. 
Convolvulus scoparius of Linnseus. 
^5 Andropogon schoenanthus of Linnseus. 
*6 Costus Indicus of Linnaeus. 
Andropogon nardus of Linnseus. 
43 See B. xiii. c, 2. 43 See K xii. c. 43, 
50 Crocus sativus of Linnaeus. 
51 Asarum Europaeum of Linnseus. 
52 See B. xii. c. 59. 
