The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1634.
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Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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¶ IN THE FOVRTEENTH BOOKE ARE contained Treatises of Vine-trees and Vine-yards. (Book 14)

...Chap.
1. Of Vines and their nature, the manner how they beare grapes.
2. Sundry kinds of Vines in generall.
3. More kinds of Vines according to the pro∣pertie of countries where they grow.
4. Notable considerations as touching the planting and ordering of Vines.
5. The nature of wine.
6. The best and most kindly wines.
7. Wines outlandish and beyond sea.
8. Of the wine called Biaeon, seuen kinds therof
9. Of sweet wines fourteene sorts.
10. Of second wines or houshold wines.
11. What good wines began of late to bee in request at Rome.
12. Obseruations of wine, set downe by king Romulus.
13. The ancient vsage of wine, and the wines of old time.
14. Of cellars for wine, and the wine Opimini∣anum.
15. Caesars liberalitie in wine, and when first there were foure sorts of wine set downe.
16. Of artificiall or set wines.
17. Of Hydromell and Oxymell.
18. Prodigious and strange kinds of wine.
19. What wines might not be vsed in sacrifi∣ces, and with what sorts new wines are so∣phisticated.
20. Sundry sorts of Pitch and Rosin: of the manner of sophisticating new wines: of vi∣negre and winelees.
21. Of wine cellars.
22. Of auoiding drunkennesse.

In summe, it containeth notable matters, histories and obseruations 510, gathered out of

Latine Authors.

Cornelius Valerius, Virgil, Celsus, Cato Censorius, Sarsennaes both father and sonne, Scropha, Varro, Decimus Syllanus, Fabius Pictor, Trogus Hyginus, Flaccus Verrius, Graecinus Iulius, Accius, Columella, Massurius Sabinus, Fenestella, Tergilla, M. Actius Plautus, Fabius, Dorsennus, Scaevola, Aelius, Atteius Capito, Cotta Messalinus, L. Piso, Pompeius Lenaeus, Fabianus, Sextius Niger, and Vibius Rufus.

Forreine Authours.

Hesiodus, Theophrastus, Aristotle, Democritus, king Attalus, K. Philometer, Architas, Xenophon, Am∣philochus the Athenian, Anaxipolis the Thasian, Apollodorus the Lemnian, Aristophanes the Mile∣sian, Antigonus the Cymaean, Agathocles the Chian, Apollonius of Pergamus, Aristander of Ath•…•… and likewise Batrys the Athenian, Bacchius the Milesian, Bion of Soli, Chereas the Athenian, a•…•… Cheristus likewise of Athens, Diodorus of Priene, Dio the Colophonian, Epigenes the Rhodian, Evagoras the Thasian, Euphron of Athens, Androcion, Aescrion and Lysimachus, who wrote al three of Agriculture, Dionysius who translated Mago, Diophanes who brought Dionysius into an Epi∣tome, Asclepiades the Physitian, Onesicritus and king Iuba.