ANTIPHRAE
ANTIPHRAE (
Ἀντίφραι,
Strab. xvii. p.799;
Ἀντίφρα,
Steph. B. sub voce Ptol.;
Ἀντιφρώ, Hierocl. p. 734: Eth.
Ἀντιφραῖος), a small inland town of the Libyae Nomos, not far from the sea, and a little W. of Alexandria, celebrated for its poor “Libyan wine,” which was drunk by the lower classes of Alexandria mixed with sea-water, and which seems to have been an inferior description of the “Mareotic wine” of Virgil and Horace (
Georg. 2.91,
Carm. 1.37.14; comp. Ath. i. p. 33,
Lucan 10.160).
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