BOOK 4

Chart. Ed. XIII. [870.] Bas. Ed. II. (426.)

...a medium temperature. Indeed, some wines are so weak and watery that they cannot tolerate the cold even from the very beginning. My father, for the sake of an experiment, placed many jars filled with such wine into a very warm room and covered them with a large amount of warm stoebe original: στοιβὴ (stoibe); a prickly Mediterranean shrub, Sarcopoterium spinosum, often used as packing material or fuel.. He achieved what he hoped for: he never had wine that turned sour; instead, all of them aged very quickly.

I will now explain how one might prepare a warm room, just as he did. In the countryside throughout our region Galen is likely referring to the area around Pergamon in Asia Minor., large houses are built with a hearth in the center where they keep a fire burning. Not far from this hearth are the stalls for the pack animals, located either on both sides, right and left, or at least on one side. There are also ovens original: κρίβανοι (kribanoi); Greek for bread ovens or baking pots. joined to the hearths at the front part of the house, which faces the main door.

All rural houses are constructed in this manner, even the inexpensive ones. However, those built with more care have an exedra original: ἐξέδρα (exedra); a hall or recessed room used for sitting or conversation. on the inner wall directly opposite the door. On either side of this area, there is a bedroom, in which...