Ebrietatis encomium, or, The praise of drunkenness
Subtitle: wherein is authentically and most evidently proved the necessity of frequently getting drunk; and, that the practice of getting drunk is most antient, primitive, and catholic
By: by Boniface Oinophilus ...
Contributors: Samber, Robert.
Publisher: Printed for C. Chapple ...
Published: 1812
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Drinking customs -- Early works to 1800.
First sentence: If on one hand I have reason to fear that the title of this book will offend the delicate ears of a great many, and make them say, that no vice ever wanted its advocate, Nullo vitio unquam defuit advoctus; I am not, perhaps, less exposed on the other to the criticisms of as many folks, who will probably apply to me that which was said heretofore to one in Lacedemonia, who had a mind to make an encomium on Hercules, viz. Who ever blamed Hercules?
Notes: A translation by Robert Samber of the author's Éloge de l'yvresse. cf. Notes and queries, 3d ser., v. 8.
First published in French in 1714, crf. A.L. Simon, Bib. gastronomica, nos. 1345-1347.
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