. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ytus alone was noted for its of the other vineyards were atMarea, and in places similarly situatednear the edge of the desert, where thelight soil was better suited to them ;though grapes for the table were pro-duced in all parts of the was
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ytus alone was noted for its of the other vineyards were atMarea, and in places similarly situatednear the edge of the desert, where thelight soil was better suited to them ;though grapes for the table were pro-duced in all parts of the was universally used by the richthioughout Egypt, and beer suppliedits place at the tables of the poor, notbecause they had no vines in theircountry, but because it was cheaper;and the same was their reason for eatingbread made of the Holcus sorghum (orDooni) like the peasants of modernEgypt, and not because it was thegreatest disgrace to eat wheaten bread.(See above, note^ on ch. 36.) And thatwine was known in Lower as well asUpper Egypt is shown bj^ the Israelitesmentioning the desert as a place whichhad no figs, or vines, or pomegranatesin contradistinction to Egypt (Gen. ; Numb. xx. δ). Wines of variouskinds were offered in the temples; and being very generally placed by the altarin glass bottles of a particular η these came to represent in hieroglyphicswhat they contained, and to signify wine, without the word itself erp being mentioned. It is remarkable thatthis word erpis is introduced byAthengeus (Deipn. ii. 39 a), quotingSappho, as the name of wine:— Αμβροσίας μεν κρατήρ ίκίκρατοΈρμας δ έλώΐ ϊρττίν βεοϊϊ οϊΐΟχόησίΐ, unless indeed he uses it for oXiriv, aladle, or small jug, which the senseseems to require, and which is in X.,425 D. (See note on chs. 18, 37, and60.) Another reading has epnev ....οϊνοχο-ησωρ. Athenaius (i. p. 33 e) de-scriijes the Egyptians as much addictedto wine, on his o
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