Ancient Latin Agricultural Writers, Vol. IV

Acetum vinegar. How it may be made, Columella 12, 5. Very sharp and beautiful, Cato 104. Fig-vinegar, Columella 12, 17. Seasoned with laserpitium, Cato 116. From apples, Palladius 3, 25. Honey-vinegar, Cato 157. From pears, Palladius 3, 25. How scyllitic squill-based vinegar may be made, Columella 12, 34 and Palladius 8, 8. From service berries and pears, Palladius 2, 15. With vinegar of honey, Columella 12, 5. Perhaps it should be read "aceti" of vinegar. Pliny 11, 15, preface: In all honey that has flowed by itself, like must and oil, it is called vinegar. Hesychius: akēton unmixed/pure, strongest. Is there also some vinegar of honey, or sour honey? Certainly, honey-merchants prohibit it as much as they can, so that no crumb of bread might fall in, from the fermentation of which they think the honey effervesces and is spoiled.

Achæi Achaeans changed the soil, Columella 1, 6.

Achaica myrrha Achaean myrrh, Columella 10, 173. He calls it smyrneion because it is born in Greece. But according to Dioscorides, it originates in Boeotia, which also comes under the name of Achaea along with adjacent regions. See Cuper in a letter to Constantijn Huygens, which Columbus presents on Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum, ch. 50. Schoettg.

Achanti acanthus 6 ounces, Vegetius 1, 10, among fumigations.

Acheloides nymphs, companions of the Pegasides, Columella 10, 263.

Achrades wild pears, Columella 7, 9; 10, 15 & 250. From which it appears they are wild.

Acina grape seeds/pips thick, Columella 12, 43. Properly, therefore, they are the skins in which the seeds are hidden, Columella 11, 2. See Graevius on Cicero, De Senectute 15.

Acina seeds for the berries of grapes themselves, such as dry and faulty ones, Columella 12, 39. Wrinkled, Columella 12, 39. Corrupted, Cato 112; Columella 12, 39. Shriveled, Columella 12, 43.

Acinaria dolia vats for grapes, Varro 1, 22.

Acinaticium vinum wine made from grape pips, Palladius 1, 6. See the method of preparing this in Cassiodorus, Variae 12, 4.

Acinus grape pip/berry. Pips of various colors in one grape, Columella Arb. 9.

Acnua a measure of land (120 square feet), what is it? Varro 1, 10; Columella 5, 1.

Acontizare to shoot out, so that the blood may do so, Vegetius 1, 26 & 27. That is, to spring forth, to burst out.

Acopon a medicinal ointment thermantic warming, Vegetius 1, 43. An ointment relieving pains and warming. Add 2, 11 & 54. Rhodius, Lexicon Scribonii, shows that it is also a term used by Pliny and Celsus.

Acor sourness/acidity, this thing causes, Columella 3, 21. Milk conceives it, Columella 7, 8. To smell of it, Columella 12, 18. Milk is spoiled by sourness, Columella 12, 13.

Acori sweet flag a pound, Vegetius 3, 57. Pontic, Vegetius 3, 79. The description and the illustration of Dodonaeus agree with that which my fellow citizens call "Calmus" Calamus. But the same author confirms that sweet flag acorum is wrongly called aromatic calamus.