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.