Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cervisia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CERVI'SIA or CEREVE'SIA. A beverage extracted from barley, like our beer or ale; which was the ordinary drink of the Gauls. (Plin. H. N. xxii. 82.) The same name, according to Servius (ad Virg. Georg. iii. 379.), was also given to a beverage extracted from the fruit of the service tree, which would correspond more closely with our cider.