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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:9188
AUTHOR:Athenaeus (fl. c. 200)
QUOTATION:On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. “It is very small for its age,” said Gnathæna.
ATTRIBUTION:The Deipnosophists. xiii. 47.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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