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31.13 CHAP. 13.—WATERS WHICH CAUSE A DISTASTE FOR WINE. WATERS WHICH PRODUCE INEBRIETY.

Eudoxus says that persons who drink the water [Note] of Lake Clitorius take a distaste for wine, and Theopompus asserts that the waters of the springs already [Note] named are productive of inebriety. According to Mucianus, [Note] there is a fountain at

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Andros, consecrated to Father Liber, from which wine flows during the seven days appointed for the yearly festival of that god, the taste of which becomes like that of water the moment it is taken out of sight of the temple.



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