Ausonius Quote

It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.

Griphus Ternarii Numeri, "Ausonio Symmacho"; translation from Helen Waddell The Wandering Scholars ([1927] 1954) p. 37.

It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.

It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.

It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.

It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.