But I trust ye will applaud my Bourdeaux; c'est des deux oreilles, as Captain Vinsauf used to say; vinum primae notae, the principal of Saint Andrews denominated it.
From which fact arose the saying that "good wine needs no bush," "Vinum vendibile hederâ non est opus.
The white powder you sent me is something very different from the drug you prescribed; it is the powder from which the wine of the Sabbath, the Vinum Sabbati was prepared.
In his Essay on Truth, Bacon says that one of the Fathers called poetry `Vinum Daemonum', because it filleth the imagination.
Certainly if it be not `vinum daemonum' it is not Poetry.
Baudius called vin de beaulne, vinum deorum, the wine of the gods[6].
Darius, the first king of Persia, had these words put upon his tomb:-- Vinum multum bibere potui idque perferre.
And the wine failing, the mater Iesu ad eum: Vinum non mother of Jesus saith to him: habent.
Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy vinum dæmonum?
Bellamye, Potum jam mihi ingere, I have said till my lips be dry, Vellem nunc vinum bibere.
Sirs, if ye will see Boyce, De disciplina scholarium, There shall ye see without misse, Quod vinum acuit ingenium.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vinum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
