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Gen_9:20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Ver. 20. And Noah began to be a husbandman.] Veteres si quem virum, bonum colonum appellassent, amplissime laudasse existimabant. Cic. Nunquam vilior erat annona Romae, referente Plinio, quam cum terram colerent iidem qui Remp. regerent; quasi gauderet terra laureato vomere, scilicet, et Aratore triumphali. See 2Ch_26:10.
And he planted a vineyard.] Hence Berosus and the poets call him Janus Oenotrius. Janus, of the Hebrew, iajin, vinum; and Oenotrius of ïéíïò , whence our English word wine.