This Explains a Lot of What Went On When Pliny Was Younger
“It is to wine that we men are indebted for being the only animated beings that drink without being thirsty.”
Pliny the Elder, 77AD
“It is to wine that we men are indebted for being the only animated beings that drink without being thirsty.”
Pliny the Elder, 77AD
January 24th, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Good quote!
January 24th, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Good man, that Pliny
January 25th, 2010 at 8:38 AM
“animated beings” It brings up such images of youth…
January 25th, 2010 at 3:46 PM
We can’t take Pliny as a credible source. He drank his wine mixed with pine resin and seawater. The closest modern equivalent to that is Cristal and Alizé.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:51 PM
That he drank repulsive wine doesn’t undermine in the least what he was saying. In fact, it reinforces it. Plny writes about wine so old it had to be chipped out of the jug and dissolved in water. If that’s enough to inspire people to drink when they’re not thirsty, imagine how much he would have enjoyed even so humble a quaff as [Yellow Tail].
January 25th, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Tom,
It’s the alcohol that people crave…
January 25th, 2010 at 5:25 PM
But the alcohol would be the first thing to evaporate, so there must have been something else amongst Pliny and his peeps.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Maybe they were acid freaks.