Charicles: Or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks
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4: Trielv, ov kpyaTai irivovcn Kai OEpawoi'Tfc, olvov. The extraordinary cheapness of the wine makes these passages intelligible, and accounts too for its somewhat exces- sive use. Eor its price, see Bockh's PmWj'c jEcora. of Athens, p. 98. In the very earliest ages wine was regarded as the chief source of joy, and agreeably to this idea, Mnsseus and Eumolpus made the reward of the virtuous in Hades to consist in perpetual intoxica- tion. Plato, de Repuhl. ii. p. 363 : dc ^lov yap ayayovrcQ t...
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