Re: CHAT: Water and wine (was: Corpses)

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> Once again, thank you for enlightening me.   Now that you have roughly
> translated it, I can roughly understand the German text.  It's very clever.
In Classical times, both Greeks and Romans considered people who drank
unmixed wine to be incipient alcoholics, but drinking water without some
alcohol to reduce the number of harmful bacteria was very dangerous.
The emperor Nero's formal name was Tiberius Claudius Nero, but he was
(very quietly) known as Biberius Caldius Mero = "drinker hot with unmixed
[wine]".  "Caldius" is a metathesis of "calidus".

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