ἐξαιρῶ λόγου: “I leave out of
account”: cp. Phaedrus 242
B, Rep. 394 B, 492 E. For
Socrates as inconvincible “with wine and wassail,” see Alcibiades'
description, 220 A.
περὶ τοῦ μεθύσκεσθαι. A favourite
subject of discussion with moralists, e.g. Theognis 473 ff., 500 ff.;
Laws I. 677 D ff., Xen. Symp. II.; and the treatise
περὶ μέθης of Antisthenes.
ἧττον...ἀηδής. “Less likely
to bore you,” sc. than if you were in the mood for wine-bibbing. Compare
(with Wolf) Hor. Sat. II. ii. 1 ff. quae virtus et quanta, boni, sit
vivere parvo...discite non inter lances mensasque nitentes.
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