Lacedaemonian Black Broth

Your correspondent "W." in No. 11., is amusing as well as instructive; but it does not yet appear that we must reject the notion of coffee as an ingredient of the Lacedaemonian black broth upon the score of *colour* or *taste*. That it was an ingredient has only as yet been mooted as a probability. Pollux, to whom your correspondent refers us, says that [Greek: zomos melas] was a Lacedaemonian food; and that it was called [Greek: aimatia], translated in Scott and Liddell's *Lexicon*, "blood-broth." These lexicographers add, "The Spartan black broth was made with blood," and refer to Manso's Sp…