In Homer's poems, the sea is often called vine. However, when it came to the consumption of wine, the Greeks that drank wine in a mixture of water, usually used not sea but fresh water. But sooner or later, sea water and wine had to meet. The legend about how this happened, said Pliny the Elder. On the island of Kos, one slave, who stole a little household wine, hid it, diluting it with water. But once he accidentally poured into the clay barrel not fresh, but sea water.
