§123.1Fr. 123
Θ. ἐν τῷ περὶ μέθης τὸν ἄκρατον φησὶν οἶνον τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ διδόμενον, ὃν δὴ λέγουσιν ἀγαθοῦ δαίμονος εἶναι πρόποσιν, ὀλίγον τε προσφέρουσιν ὥσπερ ἀναμιμνήσκοντες μόνον τῇ γεύσει τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῦ καὶ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ δωρεάν· καὶ μετὰ τὴν πλήρωσιν διδόασιν ὅπως ἐλάχιστον ᾖ τὸ πινόμενον· καὶ τρίτον προσκυνήσαντες λαμβάνουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης καὶ ὥσπερ ἱκετείαν τινὰ ποιούμενοι τοῦ θεοῦ μηδὲν ἀσχημονεῖν μηδὲ ἔχειν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦ πότου. . . καὶ λαμβάνειν ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὰ καλὰ καὶ χρήσιμα.
Theophrastus, in his work On Drunkenness, says of the unmixed wine given at dinner—which they indeed call the toast of the Good Daimon—that they offer only a little of it, as if reminding them by the taste alone of its strength and the gift of the god; and after being filled, they give it so that what is drunk may be as little as possible; and thirdly, after making obeisance, they take it from the table and, making as it were a kind of supplication to the god, they pray that they may do nothing unseemly nor have a strong desire for drink... and may receive from it what is beautiful and useful.