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Lexicographer Francisco Sobrino defined ponche or diapente, in 1732, as an English drink made with aguardiente, water, lime and sugar.

Dr. Tischendorf might have added that Diapente, or “the Gospel of the Five,” has also been a title applied to this work of Tatian.

All these instances may, indeed, throw a new light upon the Diapente in the text of Victor, which has so exercised apologists, and lead to the opinion that Tatian's Harmony was not composed out of four Gospels, but out of five.

In veterinary medicine it is also used as a tonic, and enters into a well-known compound called diapente as a chief ingredient.

We have seen that in the sixth century it was described by Victor of Capua as Diapente, "by five," instead of "by four."