Laudator Temporis Acti

Euripides, Bacchae 378-385 (tr. William Arrowsmith):

These blessings he gave:
the sacred company's dance and song,
laughter to the pipe
and the loosing of cares
when the shining wine is poured
at the feast for the gods,
and the wine bowl casts its sleep
on feasters crowned with ivy.

              ὃς τάδ᾽ ἔχει,
θιασεύειν τε χοροῖς
μετά τ᾽ αὐλοῦ γελάσαι        380
ἀποπαῦσαί τε μερίμνας,
ὁπόταν βότρυος ἔλθῃ
γάνος ἐν δαιτὶ θεῶν, κισ-
σοφόροις δ᾽ ἐν θαλίαις ἀν-
δράσι κρατὴρ ὕπνον ἀμφιβάλλῃ.        385

The same, in Gilbert Murray's very free version:

    For his kingdom, it is there,
    In the dancing and the prayer,
In the music and the laughter,
    In the vanishing of care,
And of all before and after;
In the Gods' high banquet, when
    Gleams the grape-blood, flashed to heaven;
Yea, and in the feasts of men
Comes his crownèd slumber; then
    Pain is dead and hate forgiven!

Valdis Leinieks, The City of Dionysos: A Study of Euripides' Bakchai (Stuttgart: Β.G. Teubner, 1996), pp. 222-223:

Wine is a form of nourishment. Dionysos provides it (οἴνωι, 142; οἴνου, 707) miraculously to his worshipers along with milk and honey when they are hungry. The main function of wine (ἀμπέλου ῥοῆς, 281; βότρυος...γάνος, 382-383; ἄμπελον, 772; οἴνου, 423), however, is medicinal. It brings forgetfulness of pain (λήθην τῶν...κακών, 282; ἄλυπον, 423; παυσίλυπον, 772) and induces sleep (ὕπνον, 282, 385). As a positive force wine brings joy (γάνος, 261, 383; χάριν, 535; τέρψιν, 423; τερπνόν, 774). By expelling pain and bringing joy wine contributes to the enjoyment of the simple and unambitious life.