"The Maronean wine that intoxicated Polyphemus
...and with twelve chosen from among the most intrepid, I went; and I carried with me a goatskin bottle, full of black wine, sweet, a gift from Maron, son of Evantes, minister of Apollo, the god protector of Ismarus; he gave me that gift because we reverently spared him with his son and wife: he lived in the sacred forest of Apollo; and he gave me splendid gifts: seven talents of purest gold and a crater all of silver, and he gave me twelve amphorae of wine, sweetest wine, pure, heavenly drink. None of the servants nor the maids knew that there was that wine, but only he and his wife and the woman in charge of the pantry. When they drank that wine, red, honeyed, they poured twenty measures of water per cup, and a perfume came up from the crater, divine; to abstain from it, certainly, was not pleasant...
"Odyssey", Book IX"
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