It is the property of wine, when drunk, to cause a Feeling
of warmth in the interior of the viscera, and, when poured
upon the exterior of the body, to be cool and refreshing. It
will not be foreign to my purpose on the present occasion to
state the advice which Androcydes, a man famous for his
wisdom, wrote to Alexander the Great, with the view of putting a check on his intemperance: "When you are about to
drink wine, O king!" said he, "remember that you are about
to drink the blood of the earth: hemlock is a poison to man,
wine a poison[1] to hemlock." And if Alexander had only followed this advice, he certainly would not have had to answer
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