Brewer's: Fir-cone

on the Thyrsus. The juice of the fir-tree (turpentine) used to be mixed by the Greeks with new wine to make it keep; hence it was adopted as one of the symbols of Bacchus.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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