Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Herodotus” in chapter 2, entry bottle of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...being left on the outside.
The several openings are sewn up, and the neck, which serves as a spout, is tied.
Such bottles were used by the Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans, being mentioned by Homer, Herodotus , and Virgil.
They are also used to the present day in Spain and Sicily, and other Mediterranean countries; they are called borrachas in Spain, and the peculiar flavor of marsala and some other wine...
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| † | Herodotus | 352 | 256 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Dutch Herodotus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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