Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Three Kinds of Grapes
Diogenes Laertius 1.103 (Anacharsis, tr. R.D. Hicks):
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It was a saying of his that the vine bore three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the next of intoxication, and the third of disgust.
Οὗτος τὴν ἄμπελον εἶπε τρεῖς φέρειν βόρτυς· τὸν πρῶτον ἡδονῆς· τὸν δεύτερον μέθης· τὸν τρίτον ἀηδίας.
