Jowett: drunkenness

Drunkenness

I mean to say that men who have followed after gluttony, and wantonness, and drunkenness, and have had no thought of avoiding them, would pass into asses and animals of that sort. What do you think ? PHAEDO  

Ath. And that sort of meeting, if attended with drunkenness, is apt to be unquiet. LAWS BOOK I

Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus and his son vouchsafe to the just ; they take them down into the world below, where they have the saints lying on couches at a feast, everlastingly drunk, crowned with garlands ; their idea seems to be that an immortality of drunkenness is the highest meed of virtue. Some extend their rewards yet further ; the posterity, as they say, of the faithful and just shall survive to the third and fourth generation. This is the style in which they praise justice. But about the wicked there is another strain ; they bury them in a slough in Hades, and make them carry water in a sieve ; also while they are yet living they bring them to infamy, and inflict upon them the punishments which Glaucon described as the portion of the just who are reputed to be unjust ; nothing else does their invention supply. Such is their manner of praising the one and censuring the other. THE REPUBLIC   BOOK II

In the next place, drunkenness and softness and indolence are utterly unbecoming the character of our guardians. THE REPUBLIC BOOK III