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To: Hieronymus

“Greek wine (which tastes like turpentine... “

It still exists....Retsina.


21 posted on 06/29/2019 6:35:14 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

Thanks for the excerpt. I didn’t intend the couplet.

Sometime I am a muse ing


31 posted on 06/29/2019 6:40:56 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: lizma2

It doesn’t take long to get used to retsina. But I don’t know if there is any evidence for ancient Greeks drinking retsina.


32 posted on 06/29/2019 6:42:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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