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[LJay]

Actually, Al, I am pretty sure that there were grades of oil in those days. Lesser quality oil would have been used for such things as lamps, while the good stuff went to those who cold afford it, I'll bet. I wonder if Apicius addresses this, "At the very least, there were different kinds of olive oil because there were different varieties of olive trees. A byproduct of oil making, amurca, had a number of uses. Oil was used not only for lamps but also in pharmaceutical ointments, so there may have been different viscosities. I know I am doing some guesswork here but the Greeks and Romans, being the merchants that they were, would probably not have missed the chance to make a distinction between this oil and that and thus take the opportunity to make more money.