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The chief of these were boiled-down must (defrutum, etc. ), sea-water which had been bottled, and kept a number of years, lime, turpentine, and pitch. Aromatie herbs and spices were also, sometimes employed. The cella vlnaria was constructed with a dry earthen bed, and if the wine were weak, the dolia were sunk deeply in the earth. Fer- mentation required about nine days, after which the dolia were tightly covered and only looked at from time to time. The common wines were drunk directly from t...he dolia, and from these were also filled the ox- and goat- skins in which wine was transported to a distance. Finer wines were always bottled off in amphorae, with all sorts of super- stitious precautions, and stored away, not as with us in the cellar, but in a dry room at the top of the house (apotheca). Thus Horace in his gay ode to the Amphora, 1 calls upon iHor. Od. Iii. 21. Amphorae (Marquard). AGRICULTURE. 131 the jar of choice Massic wine to come down from its place of rest and help him celebrate the festival of his friend Messala Corvinus.
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