CHION 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, endued with the virtue of restraining delusions, and a proper ingredient in ophthalmic
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thalamic medicines. Hence Seribonius Largus directs the dry ingredients in collyria for the eyes to be made up with Chian wine.