Beer

We J ave evidenoo of the use of beer for more than 2,000 years. The Grecian poet and satirist, Archilochus, who lived apout 700 ]. 0., and the Groei in tragecKgiüa iEschylus and Sophoclei, who livod about 400 13. O. , oalled it wtnc of bar ley. Diodorus, of Kieily, who lived about the time of Jnlius Cfosar, mentions beer in Iiíh history. Plliiy :i]so, about the iniddie of the first contury after Christ, speaks of tlii beverage in several places in his natnral history. He siiys tbat in Spain it ia called celia and ccria ; in Gatü and ötnèr'provinóes 'óf tlie Roman Empire cercvixin. Aftci-wanl b.eer was nnknown in Egypt until the Ffench army introducid it anew. IIow far the beer of the aJjcionta resembled the modern artirlo jve ilo not know. The word beer "was derivcd from hibc.rc, to drink.