To roam in exile, what thy land—the bound
Of thine own native soil? Who thee begat?
And of what father dost thou call thyself the son?”
And what? Theognis[931] having said:
“Wine largely drunk is bad; but if one use
It with discretion, ’tis not bad, but good,”—
does not Panyasis write?
“Above the gods’ best gift to men ranks wine,
In measure drunk; but in excess the worst.”
Hesiod, too, saying: