Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

seeds VIOLATIUM and ROSATIUM, {Rx} 5, are laxatives; ---- ORIGANUM is wine flavored with origany; etc., etc. It is doubtful, however, that the Romans knew the art of distillation to the extent as perfected by the Arabs centuries later and brought to higher perfection by the medical men and alchymists of the middle ages Violet Wine, {Rx} 5 Virility, supposed stimulants for, {Rx} 307, 410 VITELLINA, VITULINA, calf, veal, {Rx} 351-4 Vitellius, emperor, p. 11, {Rx} 189, 193, 317 VITELLUS OVI, yolk of egg; also very young calf. "Calf's sweetbreads"--Danneil Vollmer, F., editor, commentator, Apiciana No. 21, 23, 27, pp. 13, 18, 19, 273 Vossius, G. J., philologist, on Coelius, p. 266 VULVA, sow's matrix, womb; --ULA, small v., {Rx} 59, 251-54, 256. Was considered a delicacy. Pliny, Martial and Plutarch wrote at length on the subject. The humane Plutarch tells of revolting detail in connection with the slaughter of swine in order to obtain just the kind of V. that was considered the best Cf. Pliny, Hist. Nat., VIII, 51; XI, 37, 84, 54; Plutarch's essay on flesh eating, Martial, Ep. XII, 56 and VII, 19 W WEIGHTS. LIBRAE, scale, balance. LIBRA--pound--lb--12 ounces, equivalent to one AS UNCIA, an ounce, properly the twelfth part of any unit, also any small bit SCRIPULUM, or SCRU--, 1 scruple, 288 to 1 lb. SELIBRA for SEMILIBRA, half a pound Theban ounce, cf. {Rx} 3 Weighing fluids, {Rx} 471 Welsh rabbit, see ZANZERELLA Whiting, {Rx} 419 Wild Boar, {Rx} 329, seq., 338; ---- sheep, {Rx} 348; ---- goat, {Rx} 346, seq. Wilson, Dr. Margaret B., collector, cf. Preface, p. 37; cf. Apiciana I, pp. 254, 257; cf. Garum Wine, fine spiced, {Rx} 1; Rose, {Rx} 4; ---- without roses, {Rx} 6; ---- Violet, {Rx} 5; ---- To clarify muddy, {Rx} 8; ---- New--boiled down, DEFRITUM, {Rx} 21; ---- sauce for truffles, {Rx} 33; ---- Palm, {Rx} 35; ---- of Carica figs, {Rx} 55; ---- sauce for fig-fed pork, {Rx} 259, 260; ---- fish, {Rx} 479; cf. VINUM Wine pitcher, illustration, p. 208; ---- press, illustration, p. 92; ---- storage room in Pompeii, illustration,