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[3] And Polycleitus1 in his Histories describes the wine-cellar in the house as still existing and as he had himself seen it when in Acragas as a soldier; there were in it, he states, three hundred great casks hewn out of the very rock, each of them with a capacity of one hundred amphoras,2 and beside them was a wine-vat, plastered with stucco and with a capacity of one thousand amphoras, from which the wine flowed into the casks.

1 A native of Larissa and probably of the generation of Alexander the Great.

2 An amphora was about nine gallons.

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