Wisdom of the Ancients

[stoutfellow]

A quote from the Latin Anthology, a collection of poems and epigrams from the first millennium:

"In dreams, Apollo ordered me not to drink wine, and I obey him: now I just drink while I’m awake."

(h/t to Ursula Vernon)

Comments

[jsburbidge]

The position of "in dreams" is more effective, because more ambiguous, in the Latin:

Phoebus me in somnis vetuit potare Lyaeum.
Pareo praeceptis: tunc bibo, dum vigilo.

[stoutfellow]

Agreed.