CHIUM VINUM, Chian wine, or wine of the growth of the island of Chios, now Scio, is commended by Dioscorides, as affording good nourishment, fit to drink, less disposed to intoxicate, endowed with the virtue of restraining deluxions, and a proper ingredient in ophthalmic medicines. Hence Scribonius Largus directs the dry ingredients in collyria for the eyes to be made up with Chian wine.