Trajan and Nerva, those excellent princes, took sometimes a pleasure in getting drunk.
Galerius Maximinus, who, according to Aurelius Victor, was a prince of sweet temper, and loved men of probity and letters, had a very great passion for wine, and frequently got drunk. Having once given orders when he was in this condition, which he repented of when sober, he solemnly forbad any one to obey such orders that he should give when he should get drunk for the future.
[a.] Claudian, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (VIII) 300.
[1.] Esprit de Pat. p. 22.
[1a.] Ovid, Metamorphoses XV.323.
[2.] Plautus. Pseudolus 1286-87.
[2a.] Plautus, Amphitryon 1007; Amphitryon 999.
[3.] Ant. Lect. lib. iii.
[4.] Juvenal, satire x. v. 220. i.e. 219-221.
[5.] Ælian, chap. 6.