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Mat 27:48. Ὄξους, with vinegar) The soldiers were accustomed to drink vinegar[1209] themselves, as Gataker remarks, Posthumous Miscellanies, ch. 4.
[1209] Vinegar, mixed with water, and drunk by the soldiers, was called posca (pusca, Veg. Vet. ii. 48). Pl. Mil. iii. 2. 23: Plin. xxvii. 4, 12, Th. PO of potus; comp. esca.-ED.