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Headword: Oinou piein
Adler number: omicroniota,136
Translated headword: to drink of wine
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Those of the doctors who came forward were urging [someone?] to drink of wine; for, trusting in their craft, they were maintaining that in this depends whether man is in good health or not."[1]
"For could you find anything more useful than wine?" In the Homeric [phrase]: "when a man is weary with toil, wine will greatly increase his force". Herodotus says the Persians rule in accordance to this model: if they introduce any proposal when sober, they deliberate about it drunk; but if they introduce [it] drunk, this they confirm when sober.[2]
"Of wine, he said, I drink as much as I pour to the sun." [This] says Poros, king of the Indians.[3]
Greek Original:
Oinou piein. hoi prosiontes tôn iatrôn ekeleuon oinon piein: to gar toi sesôsthai ê mê ton anthrôpon, en toutôi ephaskon ara ekeinoi têi technêi pisunoi. oinou gar heurois an ti praktikôteron; para to Homêrikon: andri de kekmêôti menos mega oinos aexei. Hêrodotos de legei Persas touton kratein ton tupon: ei men oun eisêgêsainto tina nêphontes, bouleuesthai peri toutou en methêi: ei de eisêgêsainto en methêi, touto kuroun nêphontas. oinou, ephê, tosouton pinô, hoson tôi hêliôi spendô. ho Pôros phêsin, ho Indôn basileus.
Notes:
[1] Aelian fr. 182a Domingo-Forasté (179 Hercher).
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 91 (cf. epsiloniota 262), with scholion; in the course of the latter, Homer, Iliad 6.621 is quoted and Herodotus 1.133 cited.
[3] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 2.26; cf. pi 2180.
Keywords: biography; comedy; epic; food; geography; historiography; medicine; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Michiel Cock on 11 July 2005@03:11:11.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified aspects of translation; augmented notes and keywords) on 11 July 2005@04:32:35.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 1, coding) on 9 October 2012@01:36:59.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2013@06:39:16.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 26 March 2021@00:54:23.
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