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The Swarm: Moffett

Honeyed wine is also called Œnomeli and mulsum, and Moffett says:- "Aristæus was the first that brought this into Thrace, being taken with the incredible sweetness of Honey and Wine mingled together."

Moffett also gives us a recipe for it : - "The new writers describe this potion thus, Take one gallon of the best Honey, six gallons of old Wine, Salt two ounces; it must then be skimmed as it works, then put in the Salt, and season it with annise-seed and roots of Elecampane let down into the vessel with a bag. The Egyptians make it otherwise, namely of Raisins and Honey."

There seems no end to the varieties of honeyed wine and other drinks made of honey which were used by the ancients, one Greek mulsum containing thirty-six ingredients, and another kind being described as "true nectar " wont to be made about Mount Olympus in Lydia, of " wine, bees-combs, and sweet flowers."

The Usquebach of the Irish is made of honey, wine, and herbs, which beverage Moffett says is "not unfit for a nation that feeds on flesh raw, or but half sod."