This study examines the meaning of the word "saliva" in three passages of Plinius (IX 128, XIV 61, XXIII 40), relative to "purpurae" and to "vinum." Starting from the approximation with which the word "saliva" is translated into modern languages, the author implies new referrals, never used so far, coming from the medico-scientific (Celsus, Plinius, Fronto) and poetic texts ( Lucretius, Plautus). The pathway cross the link between wine and medicine, through the sofistication practises and the negative effects on human heath (marble, chalk, charcoal, dangerous even for heathy individuals; use of sea-water, upsetting stomach, bladder and nerves; resins add-ons causing headaches and dizziness). The innovative conclusion is that in the passages examined the word "saliva" means "sucus" (natural substance): the same that allows purpurae to survive up to fifty days without any other external food and to the must to reach his "vires" ( to become wine) thanks only to the fermentation process. An uncontaminated wine either from other wine types either from additives offers the guarantee of absence of nuisance to the human health.
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