Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vappa

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

VAPPA. Wine which has lost its flavour and become quite insipid, from having undergone excessive fermentation and subsequent exposure to the air (Plin. H. N. xiv. 25. Hor. Sat. ii. 3. 144.); whence the term is likewise used to designate a spendthrift, who wastes his means in folly. Hor. Sat. 1. 1. 104. Plin. l. c.