Chapter 21

21 - Book 14, Chapters 10 - 23: <i> Seven kinds of salted wines; eighteen varieties of sweet wines; at what period generous wines were first commonly made in Italy; the inspection of wine ordered by king Romulus; wines drunk by the ancient Romans; some remarkable facts connected with wine-lofts; the Opimian wine; at what period four kinds of wine were first served at table; the uses of the wild vine; sixty-six varieties of artificial wine; hydromeli or melicraton; twelve kinds of wines with miraculous properties; what wines it is not lawful to use in the sacred rites</i>

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