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Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Grapes

Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
Cowley—Elegy upon Anacreon. L. 106.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Ezekiel. XVIII. 2; Jeremiah. XXXI. 29.

Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
Judges. VIII. 2.

Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
Juvenal—Satires. II. 81.