brine-steeped

Updated: June 23, 2025

'Let us drink, then' said Megalonymus; 'here have I brought you a flagon of antiquated wine, with cream cheese and windfall olives I keep them under seal, and the seals are worm-eaten and others brine-steeped, and these fictile cups, thin-edged, firm-based, that we might drink therefrom, and a pasty of tripe rolled like a top-knot.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02