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Theognis 627-628

      It is shameful when a man is drunk among the sober and it is shameful if man remains sober among drunks   Αἰσχρόν τοι μεθύοντα παρ’ ἀνδράσι νήφοσιν εἶναι, αἰσχρὸν δ’ εἰ νήφων πὰρ μεθύουσι μένει.

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Sophocles, Fr. 735 (Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10, 428 A)

  “Drinking under compulsion is an evil equal to thirst” τὸ πρὸς βίαν / πίνειν ἴσον πέφυκε τῷ διψῆν κακόν (Yes, I had a problem with the extant article τῷ. It is an articular infinitive!)

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