Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Defrutum

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

DE'FRUTUM (ἕψημα, σίραιον). New wine boiled down to one half its original quantity (Plin. H. N. xiv. 11.), in order to increase its strength; and employed by the ancient wine growers, as the "doctor" is by the moderns, in giving body to poor wine. Columell. xii. 37.