Note * — Chapter XVIII · Athenian Cookery and the Symposium.

There was a wide difference of opinion as to the proper amount of dilution. Odysseus (Odyssey, IX. 209) mixed his fabulously strong wine from Maron in Thrace with twenty times its bulk of water. Hesiod abstemiously commended three parts of water to one of wine. Zaleucus, the lawgiver of Italian Locri, established the death penalty for drinking unmixed wine save by physicians’ orders (Athenæus, X. 33).