The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . n wine. The guests atbanquets of this kind were accustomed, during the second course,to pour forth libations of the more generous kinds of wine. Theuse of foreign wines for such a purpose became very frequent withthe Romans after 700. (Voss, ad he.) Ariusia. The Ariusian wine was the produce of the craggyheights of Ariusium, in the island of Chios, extending three hun-dred stadia along the coast. It is extolled by Strabo as the best ofall Greek wines (xiv., 1). From Athenaeus we learn that the prod-uce of the Ariusian vineyards was usually divided i
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . n wine. The guests atbanquets of this kind were accustomed, during the second course,to pour forth libations of the more generous kinds of wine. Theuse of foreign wines for such a purpose became very frequent withthe Romans after 700. (Voss, ad he.) Ariusia. The Ariusian wine was the produce of the craggyheights of Ariusium, in the island of Chios, extending three hun-dred stadia along the coast. It is extolled by Strabo as the best ofall Greek wines (xiv., 1). From Athenaeus we learn that the prod-uce of the Ariusian vineyards was usually divided into three dis-tinct species : a dry wine, a sweetish wine, and a third sort of apeculiar quality, thence termed avTonparov (i., 25). All of theseseem to have been excellent of their kind, and are frequently al-luded to in terms of the highest commendation.—Calalhis. Thecalathus was a cup shaped like a basket, which latter is the primi-tive meaning of the term. Such a basket may be seen in the fol-lowing cut. NOTES ON ECLOGUE V. 105. 72-75. Lyctius. The Lyctian, i. c, the Cretan. Lyctus wasone of the most considerable cities of Crete, to the northeast ofPraesus.—Saltantes Satyros. This, of course, would be in good keep-ing with a festival in honour of a rustic deity. The Satyrs were asort of demigods that attended upon Bacchus, and are describedas having been half men, half goats.—Hac tibi semper crunt. These(honours) shall be always thine.—Rcddcmus. We shall pay.—Lustrabimus agros. We shall be making a lustration of the allusion is to the Ambarvalia. (Consult note on Georg. i., 343.)The sacrifices to Daphnis, then, were to be perpetuated from yearto year; that is, his apotheosis was to be commemorated at thefestival of the nymphs, and also at that of the Ambarvalia, both ofwhich took place yearly. 77-80. Thymo. The thyme of the ancients was not our commonthyme, but the Thymus capitatus, qui Dioscoridis, of Bauhin. It nowgrows in great plenty on the mountain
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