1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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Silenus astride one of them. The mode of drinking from the ajmcpopev^, bottle or amphora, and from a wine skin, is taken from a paint- ing on an Etruscan vase.

: A spiced wine is noticed by Athenaeus under the name of Tpl/uLima. Into the pIpoi vyieivol, or medical wines, drugs, such as horehound, squills, wormwood, and myrtle-berries, were introduced to produce hy- gienic effects. Essential oils were also mixed with wines. Of these the /uLVppivlrrjg^ is mentioned by ^lian {V. I/. xVi. ^i). So in the early ages when Hecamede prepares a drink for Nestor, she sprinkles her cup of