The Romans often drank sour wine mixed with water, a drink
they called posca, a word derived either from the Latin Potor (to drink)
or from the Greek epoxos (very sharp).
Posca is an old, stale wine that was beginning to sour & had been
watered down. It is the ancient equivalent to cheap 3-2 beer of today.
Holding little intoxicating value, it was an inexpensive & readily
available drink that would not spoil over long periods of time.
As early as the time of Plautus (second century B.C.), posca was a
drink of the Roman lower classes, and this association continued
into the Principate. As with other foodstuffs of the common people,
posca probably also featured in Roman military diet, although it has
never been directly attested.
Romans sometimes valued wine for its age more than its other qualities.
Roman wine was also notable for the use of herbs and spices as
flavorants. This feature was inherited from the style of Greek wines.
The aroma of wine was very important for Romans.
Posca was a low-quality wine made from a mixture of water and sour wines
and infuse with herbs. Posca was popular among soldiers due to its low
price and low alcohol content. Such mixtures use medicinally in earlier
Greece, sometime taken as a drink, sometimes applied externally but
they had no general name.
Ancient drink: Posca
Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.
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