Wine

But he wantonly committed a brutal assault upon an old man when in his cups;

The young are incited by their natural arrogance, their full vigor, and the unaccustomed effects of wine to give free play to anger:

This chariot he has included in his inventory to me, but of the barley and wine and the rest of the farm-produce not a tenth part.

when besides this he has opened the seals of the buildings and carried off the grain and wine from within, and furthermore has after the offer to exchange sold the cut timber to the value of more than thirty minae;

You, on the contrary, since you sell from your farm your barley at a price of eighteen drachmae and your wine at a price of twelve, are a rich man, naturally, for you make more than a thousand medimni of grain and above eight hundred measures of wine.

Another let her thyrsos strike the ground, and there the god sent forth a fountain of wine.

but he who came afterwards, the offspring of Semele, discovered a match to it, the liquid drink of the grape, and introduced it to mortals.

Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and venesection;

Anxiety, yawning, rigor,-wine drunk with an equal proportion of water, removes these complaints.

Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking undiluted wine, plenteous bathing with hot water, and venesection.

First of all sweet, fragrant wine ran streaming throughout all the black ship and a heavenly smell arose, so that all the seamen were seized with amazement when they saw it.

Now does he make no distinction in value, at that moment, between a cup of earthenware and his own son, or between three pints of wine and his son?

when a man highly values a thing, as in the common case of a father who prizes his son above all his possessions, will such a man, for the sake of placing his son before everything, value anything else highly at the same time?

would anyone prefer to it that vine from which golden grapes and golden leaves hang?

But as of liberty, so of wine, the wholesome thing is moderation.

and Liber was called the discoverer of wine not because of any license of the tongue, but because he frees the mind from the slavery of cares, sets it at liberty, quickens it, and makes it bolder for every undertaking.

So too, in the mention of the cup, constituting the testament sealed with his blood, he confirmed the substance of the body.

after that, Dionysus, a little flushed with wine drunk at a banquet of the gods, will come to join her;

the wine helps to incite me, and the kind of love that ever dwells with me spurs me on to say what I think about its opposite.