Chap. 19.] 
YAlilSTIES OF AllTIFICIAL WINE. 
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pepper and honey, the wines are made by some known as con- 
fection wines,^^ and by others as peppered wines. "We find 
mention made of nectarites also, a beverage extracted from a 
herb known to some as helenion,"^^ to others as *'Me- 
dica,"^^ and to others, again, as symphyton,^"^ Idsea, Orestion, 
or nectaria, the root of which is added in the proportion of 
forty drachms to six sextarii of mnst, being first similarly 
placed in a linen cloth. 
As to other kinds of herbs, we find wormwood wine,^^ made 
of Pontic wormwood in the proportion of one pound to forty 
sextarii of must, which is then boiled down until it is reduced 
to one third, or else of slips of wormwood put in wine. In a 
similar manner, hyssop wine is made of Cilician hyssop,^^ by 
adding three ounces of it to two congii of must, or else by 
pounding three ounces of hyssop, and adding them to one 
congius of must. Both of these wines may be made also in 
another method, by sowing these plants around the roots of 
vines. It is in this manner, too, that Cato tells us how to 
make hellebore wine from black hellebore ; and a similar 
method is used for making scammony^^ wine. The vine has a 
remarkable propensity of contracting the flavour of any plant 
that may happen to be growing near it ; and hence it is that 
in the marshy lands of Patavium, the grape has the peculiar 
flavour of the willow. So, in like manner, we find at Thasos 
hellebore planted among the vines, or else wild cucumber, or 
scammony; the wine that is produced from these vines is 
known by the name of "ph thorium," it being productive of 
abortion. 
Condita. Piperata. 
Inula helenium of Linnaeus. See B. xxi. c. 91. 
Medicago sativa of Linnseus. 
^"^ Symphytum officinale of Linnseus, being all different varieties. 
" Absinthites ;" made of the Artemisia Pojitica of Linnaeus. A medi- 
cinal wine is still prepared with, wormwood ; and apsinthe," a liqueur 
much esteemed in Jb'rance, is made from it. 
''^ Hyssopites. 
Hyssopites officinalis of Linnaeus. 
^1 Helleborites. Scammonites. 
Fee says that this is not the fact ; and queries whether the vulgar 
notion still entertained on this subject, may not be traced up to our author. 
It is a not uncommon behef that roses smell all the sweeter if onions are 
planted near them. 
