And do not chatter like the wave
Of the loud brawling sea, with that
Ever-loquacious Gastrodora,
Drinking the cup ἐπίστιος.
But the name which we give it is ἀνίσων.
67. But do not you be afraid to drink; nor will you be in any danger of falling on your hinder parts; for the people who drink what Simonides calls—
Wine, the brave router of all melancholy,
can never suffer such a mischance as that. But as Aristotle says, in his book on Drunkenness, they who have drunk beer, which they call πῖνος, fall on their backs. For he says, “But there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, which they call πῖνος, for they who get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body; they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer who fall on their backs, and lie with their faces upwards.” But the wine which is made of barley is by some called βρύτος, as Sophocles says, in his Triptolemus—
And not to drink the earthy beer (βρύτον).
And Archilochus says—
And she did vomit wine as any Thracian
Might vomit beer (βρύτον), and played the wanton stooping.
And Æschylus, also, mentions this drink, in his Lycurgus—
And after this he drank his beer (βρύτον), and much And loudly bragg'd in that most valiant house.