VINE. 
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never be propitious, unless he be sedulous to pro- 
cure plenty and tranquillity to the people of whom 
he is constituted father. The plantation of vine- 
yards in Brittany, in the northern part of the Celtic 
provinces, was attended with unsurmountabie dif- 
ficulties on the part of Nature ; and the inhabitants 
of those countries, and even of Celtic Gaul, con- 
tinued to extract their usual drink from barley, for 
want of a sufficient growth of vines : 
“ Unthriving vines compell’d the Celtic swain 
To force a liquor from the bearded grain.” 
But at last they were planted in all countries 
where there was any possibility of their success. It 
was in the seventh century that they began to be 
propagated through all France ; and they probably 
invited the Franks into Gaul, as they had already 
engaged the Gauls to fix their settlements in Italy. 
The other German nations, who had no more con- 
quests to pursue, endeavoured to open a tract of 
land in the Black Forest, and to plant vines along 
the banks of the Rhine. Hungary had likewise its 
vineyards ; and when they afterwards were propa- 
gated in all parts, the inhabitants grew satisfied with 
their condition, and were no longer solicitous to se- 
cure new settlements. 
The Romans, even nearly to the days of Lu- 
cullus, were very seldom able to regale themselves 
with wine. Very little was then raised in the com- 
pass of Italy ; and the foreign wines were so dear 
that they were rarely produced at an entertainment; 
