Wine and health

While researching the Mediterranean diet, I cam across some notes about red wine and saw something I really liked:

Wine and health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In his circa 375 BC play Semele or Dionysus, Eubulus has Dionysus say:
“Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure, the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar, the sixth to drunken revel, the seventh to black eyes, the eight is the policeman's, the ninth belong to biliousness, and the tenth to madness and hurling the furniture."

All I can say is, SO TRUE! Who hasn't progressed through all these stages, or at least almost all of them. I'm not sure how large Dionysus' bowls were, but I think that they must have been quite large. This is a great reminder to drink in moderation, so as to enjoy the benefits of wine, but not to wake the demons that lie within.

In vino veritas ~~ In wine is truth