Not Bacchus, Dionysus, nor yet wine—
Those names but fit the products of the vine;
Beer thou mayst be from barley; or, that failing,
We’ll call thee ale, for thou wilt keep us ailing.”
Agathias
GRAMMAR AND MEDICINE
“A thriving doctor sent his son to school
To gain some knowledge, should he prove no fool;
But took him soon away with little warning,
On finding out the lesson he was learning—
How great Pelides’s wrath, in Homer’s rime,