BOOK 4

While the Greek header indicates Book 4, the content remains continuous with the discussion of wine preservation found in Book 1 of Galen's treatise on Antidotes.

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...a moderate temperature, because of their internal balance, they never require. However, some wines are so weak and watery that they cannot withstand the cold even from the start. In these cases, my father, as an experiment, threw a large amount of warm stoebe original: στοιβὴν / stoebe; a Mediterranean shrub, likely Sarcopoterium spinosum, often used as fuel or packing material into a very warm room and hid filled wine jars within it. Having achieved what he hoped for, he never had wine turn sour. Instead, all of them aged very quickly. I will now describe how one might prepare a warm room in the way he constructed his. Throughout all the rural districts in our region, large houses are built with a hearth in the center where they light the fire. The stalls for the pack animals are located not far from this hearth, either on both sides, right and left, or certainly on one of the two.

There are also ovens original: κρίβανοι / fornaces; specifically vaulted ovens or kilns used for baking or heating joined to the hearths at their front section, which faces the door of the whole house. All houses in the countryside are constructed in this manner, even if they are inexpensive. Those built with more care have a hall original: ἐξέδραν / exedram; an open-fronted sitting area or porch against the inner wall, positioned directly opposite the door. On either side of this hall is a bedroom, in whose upper...