'Doubtless.' And did we not say that the souls of the drinkers, when subdued by wine, are made softer and more malleable at the hand of the legislator?
the docility of childhood returns to them.
At times however they become too valiant and disorderly, drinking out of their turn, and interrupting one another.

And the business of the legislator is to infuse into them that divine fear, which we call shame, in opposition to this disorderly boldness.

But in order to discipline them there must be guardians of the law of drinking, and sober generals who shall take charge of the private soldiers; they are as necessary in drinking as in fighting, and he who disobeys these Dionysiac commanders will be equally disgraced.

'Very good.' If a drinking festival were well regulated, men would go away, not as they now do, greater enemies, but better friends.

Of the greatest gift of Dionysus I hardly like to speak, lest I should be misunderstood.