Wine
object · 10 works · 10 mentions · 15 anchored passages
wine · a more generous draught · above eight hundred measures of wine · al-khamr · an intoxicating drink · an intoxicating fluid · drunkenness · grape-cluster · his blood · his cups
in the texts
The Third Tetralogy
The wine consumed before the brawl, repeatedly cited as a factor in the aggressive behavior of whichever party is argued to have been the aggressor.
The young are incited by their natural arrogance, their full vigor, and the unaccustomed effects of wine to give free play to anger:
But he wantonly committed a brutal assault upon an old man when in his cups;
Against Phaenippus
Wine produced or stored on Phaenippus' farm.
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.
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.
For where is one to turn if he fails of a verdict from you, when men of wealth who have never been of any service to you, who produce large quantities of grain and wine and dispose of this at three times its former price, have an advantage in your courts?
Bacchae
The drink of the grape that Teiresias identifies as Dionysus's chief gift to mortals, relieving grief and granting sleep.
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.
Aphorisms
An alcoholic beverage used therapeutically for eye pain, urinary complaints, and other ailments
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.
Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and venesection;
Hymn 7 to Dionysus
Miraculous fragrant wine that runs through the ship as a sign of Dionysus' presence.
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.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Wine, al-Ghazzālī's worked example in which body, fluid and drink are tested in turn until the proximate genus is found.
Rather you ought to say “an intoxicating drink”, for that is the nearest and the most specific, and you will find after it no genus more specific than it.
Letters to Lucilius
A cultivated plant whose proper virtue is fruitfulness, used as an analogy for a man's intrinsic worth versus external possessions.
would anyone prefer to it that vine from which golden grapes and golden leaves hang?
On Tranquillity of Mind
Drink recommended in moderation as a means of freeing the mind from care and restoring vigor, discussed for its benefits and risks.
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.
But as of liberty, so of wine, the wholesome thing is moderation.
Adversus Marcionem
The cup of wine that Christ consecrates as his blood, tied to Old Testament figures of blood in wine.
So too, in the mention of the cup, constituting the testament sealed with his blood, he confirmed the substance of the body.
Symposium
Wine as part of the banquet setting and as a stimulant to frank speech and Dionysian play.
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.