Of immoderate drinking the same writer says, “For insolence and ruin follow it;” and in that view he was supported by many other writers of his day. Eubulus, for example, who flourished about a century later, has left some verses which are applicable to other nations and to times different from that in which he lived and sang. He puts the following verses upon the lips of Bacchus:— “Let them three parts of wine all duly season With nine of water who’d preserve their reason. The first gives health, the second sweet desires, The third tranquillity and sleep inspires. These are the wholesome draughts which wise men please, Who from the banquet-house return in peace. From a fourth measure insolence proceeds; Uproar a fifth; a sixth wild license breeds; A seventh brings black eyes and livid bruises; The eighth the constable introduces; Black gall and hatred lurk the ninth beneath; The tenth is madness, arms, and fearful death. For too much wine poured in one little vessel Trips up all those who seek with it to wrestle.”[151] Another quotation illustrative of the habits of the times must suffice. Epicharmus, a Greek by birth, who lived in Sicily even at an earlier period than either of the preceding, and of whose writings we have many remains, has left a few lines on the subject of drunkenness which supplement the above account of its ill effects, and which, alas! apply to the nineteenth century of our Christian era equally with the period at which Epicharmus flourished, namely, about 540 B.C.:— “Then the drinking riot breeds; Then on riot and confusion Follow law and prosecution; Law brings sentence, sentence chains; Chains bring wounds and ulcerous pains.”[152] But it is unnecessary that we should follow the history of the drinking habits of Greece any further, for we find the same excesses to have prevailed there as we meet with in the relations on the same subject in Rome, and to that empire, therefore, we must now direct our attention. * * * * *