Zythum, zythi, ne. ge. Plin. Drinke made of barley sodden, it may be taken for Ale or Beare.A Aron, was sonne to Amram, and brother to Moyfes: the worde stgnifieth the Mountaine of Fortitude, or a strong hill. He was of the tribe of Leui, the fourth from him in lineall discent: in his proper tongue very eloquent, elected of God to be the sirst Bishop of the Iewes. He liued, 123. yeares, and died before the incarnation of Christ, 1471. yeares.Aba.A towne in Arabie, and a Citie of Phocis. Also an hill of Armenia out of which the Rtuer Euphrates springeth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
zythum, i, n., = zu=qos, a kind of malt-liquor among the Egyptians, Plin. 22, 25, 82, 164; Col. 10, 116; Dig. 33, 6, 9 praef.