Excerpt from Ebrietatis Encomium: Or the Praise of Drunkenness Homer wrote of no more weighty subject than of a war between the Frogs and Mice; Virgil of a Gnat and a Pudding; Ovid of a Nut; and Lucian and Apuleius told the story of an Ass. May this trifle drown the cares and anxieties of the reader like a flask of old Falernian and thus serve to verify the claim of Erasmus that this is the chief property of Bacchus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books ...
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Excerpt from Ebrietatis Encomium: Or the Praise of Drunkenness Homer wrote of no more weighty subject than of a war between the Frogs and Mice; Virgil of a Gnat and a Pudding; Ovid of a Nut; and Lucian and Apuleius told the story of an Ass. May this trifle drown the cares and anxieties of the reader like a flask of old Falernian and thus serve to verify the claim of Erasmus that this is the chief property of Bacchus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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