place
Surrentum
also: Surrentina
A town on the Bay of Naples (modern Sorrento) noted for a thin wine, which the connoisseur blends with Falernian lees.
Reading notes
- The Epistles §1.17 Surrentum
A town on the Bay of Naples (modern Sorrento) noted for a thin wine, which the connoisseur blends with Falernian lees.
- The Satires §2.4 Surrentine wines
A thin wine of Surrentum (Sorrento), which the expert blends with Falernian lees and clarifies with a pigeon's egg.