[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool โ it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.
HomerYou, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, youโd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combatโcoward!
Homer