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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules

Note 112 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.

George Chapman translation

Byblian wine.] This was so called from a region of Thrace: it was a thin wine, and not intoxicating. See Athenæus, i. 31. It is mentioned by Theocritus, Idyl. xiv. 15:

I open’d them a flask of Byblian wine Well-odour’d: with the flavour of four years.

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