Denique cur, hominem cum vini vis penetravit acris et in venas discessit diditus ardor, consequitur gravitas membrorum, praepediuntur crura vacillanti, tardescit lingua, madet mens, nant oculi, clamor singultus iurgia gliscunt, et iam cetera de genere hoc quaecumque sequuntur, cur ea sunt, nisi quod vemens violentia vini conturbare animam consuevit corpore in ipso? at quaecumque queunt conturbari inque pediri, significant, paulo si durior insinuarit causa, fore ut pereant aevo privata futuro.
Moreover, when the piercing power of wine has penetrated into a man, and its fire has been dispersed abroad, spreading through the veins, why does heaviness come upon the limbs, why are his legs impeded, why does he stagger, his tongue grow tardy, his mind soaked, his eyes swim, noise and hiccups and brawls burst out, and all the rest of such things follow, why is this, I say, unless it be that the vehement fury of wine is accustomed to confuse the spirit while yet in the body? But if anything can be confused and impeded, this indicates that, if some cause a little more compelling should penetrate, the thing would perish, and be robbed of its future life.
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