Irish Daily Mirror

5th century tippling tip

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A MESSAGE encouragin­g drinking has been found on a 1,600-year-old bottle given to a Roman villa lord.

An inscriptio­n on the glass reads in both Latin and Greek: “Drink and live many years, good man.”

It was on part of the 5th century bottle discovered at Gijon in northern Spain.

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