And certainly Cicero was much in the wrong, when he said, that “what people do when they are drunk, is not done with the same approbation as if they were sober; they hesitate, and often recall themselves, and frame a weaker judgment of what they see[13].” But had he consulted experience, he would have found that drunkenness, far from making people fearful, inspires them with boldness and temerity.
[1.] Vinum acuit ingenium.
[2.] Vinum ingenii fomes.
[3.] Hist. des. vii. sag. p. 123.
[4.] Non idem sapere possunt qui aquam et qui vinum bibunt.
[5.] Resp. aux Quest. d’un Prov. t. i. ch. 12.
[6.] Sive Platoni credimus, frustra poetices fores compos sui pepulit. Non potest grande aliquid et supra cæteros loqui nisi mota mens.
[7.] 1 Ep. xix. 3.
[7a.] Ovid, Ex Ponto IV.ii.25-26.
[8.] La Motte, Ode Pind. 1.