wine Copy link Outline 1. vīnum2. mĕrum (sheer unmixed w.)3. mustum (new w.)4. tēmētum (any strong drink; poet.)5. Bacchus (meton.)6. Līber (meton.)7. vappa (flat w.) • wine: 1. vīnum: red, dark-coloured w., v. rubrum, atrum, nigrum, Plin.: white, light-coloured w., v. album, Plin.: candidum, Pall.: new w., v. novum, Cic.; recens, Plin.: old w., v. vetus, Cic.: dry w., v. austerum, Cels.: sweet w., v. dulce, Cic.: fine w., v. bonum, Sen.; generosum, Plin.: weak w., v. nullarum virium, Cels.; imbecillum, Plin.: the w. becomes sour, v. acescit, Col.: the w. is sour, v. acet, Cato: it is not every w. that grows sour by age, non omne vinum vetustate coacescit, Cic. Sen. 18, 65: to wash away cares with sweet w., dulci mala vino lavere, Hor. Od. 3, 12, 2: on the wines of antiquity, v. Smith's Ant. 1201. Phr.: to drink much w., largiore vino uti, Liv.: Curt.: to drink too much w., vino se obruere, Cic. Deiot. 9, 26: to drink very little w., vini esse parcissimum (opp. vini plenus), Suet. Oct. 77: fond of wine, vinosus, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 6 (all from Kr.): v. to drink, drunk. 2. mĕrum (sheer unmixed w.): how the slut tipples off the w., ut ingurgitat impura in se merum avariter, Pl. Curc. 1, 2, 35. 3. mustum (new w.): he boils down on the fire the juice of the sweet new w., dulcis musti Vulcano decoquit humorem, Virg. G. 1, 295. 4. tēmētum (any strong drink; poet.): a cask of w. cadus temeti, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 163. 5. Bacchus (meton.): let the cups swim with generous w., madeant generoso pocula Baccho, Tib. 3, 6, 5. 6. Līber (meton.): when truthful w. opens the secrets of the heart, condita cum verax aperit praecordia Liber, Hor. S. 1, 4, 89: I have had my fill of the best of w., me complevi flore Liberi, Pl. Cist. 1, 2, 8. 7. vappa (flat w.): accustomed to drink flat w. on common days, solitus potare vappam profestis diebus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 144.