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The vintage is rarely ripened by time, whose unrivalled work is imperfectly done in the _estufa_ or flue-stove, the old fumarium, or in the _sertio_ (apotheca), an attic whose glass roofing admits the sun.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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lusi decenter cum meis lusoribus laudante populo maximis clamoribus thermis Traiani, thermis Agrippae et Titi, multum et Neronis, si tamen mihi creditis, 5 ego sum. ouantes conuenite pilicrepi statuamque amici floribus, uiolis rosis folioque multo adque unguento marcido onerate amantes et merum profundite nigrum Falernum aut Setinum aut uel Caecubum10 uiuo ac uolenti de apotheca dominica,
Epitaph of Ursus Anonymous 1912
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Gtneva* There was fbrmeiiy fold in the apotheca - ries (hops a diflilled fpirituous water of juniper; but the vulgar being fond of it as a dram, the dlftillers fup - planted the apothecaries, and fold it under the name of Geneva.
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