Oinos krithinos. A dissertation concerning the origin and antiquity of barley wine / [Anon].

  • Benjamin Buckler
Date:
1750
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Credit: Oinos krithinos. A dissertation concerning the origin and antiquity of barley wine / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gypt, but what the original -Egyptian name for it was, I cannot pofitively allert. It is not (I think) at all improbable that the name it goes by in ^Egypt at prefent is the original and moft an¬ cient name of it. At this very day the Egyptians make ale by pouring hot water on ground barley, the next day it ferments, and the day after they drink it i. Tliis liquor they call in their own language Bouzyy from whence undoubtedly is deriv’d our Englifh word to Bowfe, which is properly us’d of drinking ale heartily; for we never fay of a man who is us’d to drink wine in large quantities that he is a bowfaig fellow^ but only of an ale or beer drinker. My reafon for thinking that this is the old R- gyptian word for it, is, becaufe we generally find that the mo¬ derns retain the fame names of liquors, which were us’d in the moft ancient times in their own countries, or make very little alteration in them. The word Bouzy is deriv’d from Bujirisy the name of a City in Delfa^ fo call’d from it’s having the tomb of OJiris in it, which was erected by l^is: for Bujiris in the iEgy- ptian language fignifies the tomb of Ofris 2-. The oldeft name which we meet with of this liquor, is what Mofes makes ufe of more than once in the Pentateuch, Levit. I This account of Bouzy I had fome years ago from the learned and reve-* rend Dr Shaw, which I have fince feen confirm’d by DrPocock in his Defcri^ ptlon oftheEaft. The moft vulgar people make a fort of beer of barley “without being malted, and they put fomething in it to make it intoxicate “ and call it Bouzy. They make it ferment, ’tis thick and four, and will not keep longer than 5 or 4 days.” v.i. p.iSa. In the Kingdom of Senna they have a liquor call’d by the fame name. See the travels of the MlJJtonartes, a See Bayle in v. Bufirls, and Abbe Banier’s DifTertation on Typhon in Hiftoire de I’Acad. des infcript. tom. d. p.iyi* Diod. Sic. informs us that ac¬ cording to fome hiftorians, Ifis having collected the members of her husband Ofiris whom Typhon had {lain and cut to pieces, put them together into a wooden cow; and from thence the city was call’d Bufrts. p.y^* and in 79. he fays, that Bufiris in the language of iEgypt fignifies ra^po^. ed. Rhod. B 10.9.
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