Opimian, a. (n.) Rom. Antiq.
(əʊˈpɪmɪən)
[ad. L. Opīmiān-us of or belonging to Opimius.]
In Opimian wine (L. vīnum Opīmiānum), or absol. Opimian, a very celebrated ancient Roman wine of the vintage of A.U.C. 633, when Opimius was consul.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 419 That there were wine sellars at Rome..appeareth plaine by a good proofe of the Opimian wine. 1863 Shirley in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 241 The cry for light will not be silenced though we..pour the hundred-yeared Opimian before the shrine of Apollo. |