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Grape

Nature

Grape as a plant people have named and used. Cluster joy, pressed wine, vine child — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Grape is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica treats the grape-vine’s fruit, leaves, and must among drug materials and wine-adjacent pharmacy. A named grape in that handbook, not vine as a second entity for the same ἄμπελος and not Dionysiac myth alone.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Grape is historically related to Oil.

    In al's The Jewish Encyclopedia, Grape is treated with Oil; piece and peer stock share the entry.

    from Isidore Singer et al. · The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901–1906

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  • Grape is associated with Vine.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Good Shepherd is surrounded with bunches of Grapes on a Catacomb grave lamp among Vine subjects — the grape sits with that vine.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Grape is historically related to Wine.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, wine is called the pure blood of the grape, as Judah washes garments in the blood of the grape.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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Roman religion

  • Grape appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats the grape among Italian viticulture and wine-making chapters. A named grape in that encyclopedia, not vine as a second Vitaceae id and not wine-press as the machine already walked.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Islam

  • Grape appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names grapes and vines among gardens, provision, and parable speech. A named plant in that Arabic scripture, not Dionysian wine cult and not a generic vineyard dump.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Grape appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias seats the grape among Dionysiac cultivation and sanctuary plant speech. A named grape in that periegesis, not Pliny viticulture alone and not ivy as the already-filed Pausanias plant.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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