"the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine."

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Source : Athenaeus (of Naucratis.), Charles Burton Gulick (1969). “The Deipnosophists”, Harvard Univ Pr

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