Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . to theguests in earthenvases ( veltestce) with handles,^hence called ,^or in big-bellied jugsor bottles ()of glass,^ leather,^ orearth/ on each ofuhich were affixedlabels or small slipsof parchment,^ giv-ing- a short descrip-tion of the qualityand age of the wine; thus, FALERNUM, OPI-MIANUM ANNORUM CEN-TUM, OpimiaU Faler-nian, an hundredyears old. fc;ome-times different kinds of wine and of fruit were set before the guests according totheir different rank ; ^^ whence vinum dominicum, the wine dr
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . to theguests in earthenvases ( veltestce) with handles,^hence called ,^or in big-bellied jugsor bottles ()of glass,^ leather,^ orearth/ on each ofuhich were affixedlabels or small slipsof parchment,^ giv-ing- a short descrip-tion of the qualityand age of the wine; thus, FALERNUM, OPI-MIANUM ANNORUM CEN-TUM, OpimiaU Faler-nian, an hundredyears old. fc;ome-times different kinds of wine and of fruit were set before the guests according totheir different rank ; ^^ whence vinum dominicum, the wine drunkby the master of the house, and ccenare civiliter, to be on a levelwith ones guest.^- The wine was mixed^^ with water in a large vase or bowl,called CRATER, v. -era, whence it was poured into cups (pocula).^*Cups were called by different names; calices, phialcB, paterop,canthari, carchesia, ciboria, scyphi, cymbia, scaphia, batiol(e,cululli, amystides, &c., and made of various materials ; of wood,as beech, fagina, sc. pocula, of earth, fictilia, of glass, vitrea,^*.
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