Keep the Wine Flowing Then! Euripides, Bacchae 773-4

“When wine is gone, there is no more Cypris*, nor anything else to delight a mortal heart.”

οἴνου δὲ μηκέτ᾽ ὄντος οὐκ ἔστιν Κύπρις
οὐδ᾽ ἄλλο τερπνὸν οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις ἔτι.

*Cypris = Aphrodite

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