[3.] Du Mont. Voyag. t. iii. let. 5.
[4.] Chaumont Voyag. de Siam.
[5.] Bayle Dict. t. ii. p. 1266.
[6.] Ælian, lib. ii. ch. 33.
[7.] Du Mont. Voyag. t. iii. lit. 5.
[8.] Rec. choise d’Hist.
[CHAP. XXVII.]
RIGOROUS LAWS AGAINST WINE AND DRUNKENNESS.
It is easy to imagine, that princes who did not love wine themselves, would make very rigorous laws against drunkenness, and fall into that fault which Horace speaks of.
Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt.[a]
But this maxim, Nullum violentum durabile, has been verified a great many times, upon this subject of drunkenness, for all the laws made against it have not long subsisted.