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To: SunkenCiv

Can they determine from those shards whether they contained wine or wine vinegar? A great deal of wine was made for vinegar in those days for medical and other antiseptic purposes and it was and is quite effective.


6 posted on 10/28/2011 11:49:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

They would have made vinegar, but when an armed cohort wanders in, thirsty from the field, best approach is to serve the freakin’ wine. :’)

Vinegar was one of the barter items Roman soldiers rec’d as pay. The other was salt.


11 posted on 10/29/2011 10:13:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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